Waste Management Services Lot 1: Commercial Waste and Recycling Services Lot 2: Confidential Waste and Non-Confidential Paper Waste Lot 3: Chemical/Hazardous Waste Lot 4: Clinical Waste

Management of Waste Management Services for Commercial Waste and Recycling Waste. Queen's offers a four-stream waste operation with dedicated internal bins for general waste, metal cans and tins, paper and plastic bottles. In addition, some of these locations also have dedicated internal bins for glass (bottles and jars) and food waste. As a result, Queen's requires external bins for the separate collection of general waste, dry mixed recyclables, food and glass. Queen's has approximately 60 external bin collection points across the University campus.

Suppliers will be required to provide a combined pick up service for both confidential and non-confidential paper from collection points across the Queen's Campus. There are currently 80 centralised collection points. The majority of these collection points are within a one-mile radius of the main Queen's campus; however, collection will be required from outlying locations including four sites at the Royal Victoria Hospital and ECIT in the Belfast Titanic Quarter.

The Supplier will provide a comprehensive service for the collection, appropriate transportation and disposal of chemical / hazardous waste in accordance with all relevant and current statutory requirements. The Supplier shall be responsible for the collection of the waste from specified stores including the provision of suitable waste receptacles (where required), packing into transport containers as required, loading the containers on to the collection vehicle and transporting the waste to the disposal facility. Queen's currently has approximately eleven chemical waste collection points with the majority of collection locations within a one mile radius of the main Queen's Lanyon building. Suppliers should note that there is also a collection point at the Royal Victoria Hospital site.

The Supplier shall be responsible for the collection of the waste from the specified stores including packing into transport containers as required, loading the containers on to the collection vehicle and transporting the waste to the disposal facility. There should be no compaction or volume reduction of the untreated waste. One consignment to be collected per four week intervals from each of the stores as above (estimated 12 consignments per year).