Purpose

To purchase waste collection
vehicles and containers.

Decision

That the Cabinet Member for
Climate Emergency, Clean Air and Streets:
 

1. 
Authorises the Director of Environment to issue
Letters of Intent to Veolia ES Southwark Limited (Veolia)
authorising essential and urgent expenditure for food waste
collection service rollout, to enable orders to be placed for the
purchase of:
1.1. 
Seven specialist food waste collection vehicles at a total cost of
approximately £850k.
1.2. 
Containers and food waste container housings with an expected cost
of up to approximately £1.3m.
2. 
Notes that the proposed principles of service design set out in
this report will be the subject of a further Gateway 3 Report when
the final terms of the variation have been agreed with Veolia.
3. 
Notes that funding from DEFRA provided as part of the new burdens
funding of £1.316m, and Waste PFI reserves will be used to
fund these purchases as one-off capital purchases to enable the new
service to be provided.