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Useful links

This page provides links for local authorities and contractors interested in waste procurement.

Procuring Works and Services

The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) provides information about procurement.

Visit: Office of Government Commerce (OGC) (external link)

The buy4Wales website provides a way of advertising your tender to contractors.

Visit: buy4Wales (external link)

Creating and Assessing Business Cases

Treasury guidance on the development and assessment of business cases is available on their website.

Visit: Treasury guidance on the development and assessment of business cases (external link)

Procurement Procedures

An OGC guide to the competitive dialogue process in the new Public Contracts Regulations is provided on the OGC website.

Visit: Office of Government Commerce (OGC) guide to the competitive dialogue process (pdf, external link)

Training in Procurement

Information on the Value Wales Training and Development Programme for procurement is available on the Buy4Wales website.

Visit: Value Wales Training and Development Programme for procurement (external link)

Managing Operational Service Contracts

The Operational Project Support was set up by the Treasury in 2006. It operates within Local Partnerships.  Operational Project Support provides help, support and guidance to the public sector managers of operational Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Public Private Partnerships (PPP) projects.  

Visit: The Operational Project Support (external link)

Standard Form Contracts

Treasury guidance and information on standard form contracts in the waste management sector can be found on the Treasury and Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) websites.

Visit: standardised contract information on the Treasury website (external link)

Visit: Standardisation of waste management PFI contracts on the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs website (pdf, external link)

Communication and Community Engagement

Information from Waste Awareness Wales to help support the national ‘recycle for Wales’ campaign is available on the Waste Awareness Wales website.

Visit: the Waste Awareness Wales website: information for partners (external link)

Planning and Regional Waste Plans

The individual Regional Waste Plans can be viewed on the Wales Regional Waste Plans site.

Visit: Wales Regional Waste Plans (external link)

Environmental Permitting

The new Environmental Permitting Regulations were introduced by the Environment Agency in April 2008. The regulations will streamline waste management licensing and pollution control regimes.

Visit: The Environment Agency: Environmental Permitting Regulations (external link)

General

The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) represents the interests of local authorities in Wales.  

Visit: Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) (external link)

Local Partnerships (LP)

Local Partnerships (LP) is a joint venture by Her Majesty’s Treasury and the Local Government Association.  

LP has been set up with a unique mission, to strengthen public, and community focussed third sector client side commercial capability. It does this by providing leading edge commercial expertise to drive value and efficiency in the design and delivery of public services and infrastructure.

LP works for public benefit and only with:

  • government;
  • local authorities;
  • local public bodies; and 
  • the community focussed third sector.

It supports them deliver investment in local infrastructure and local services. The LPs operates without the limitations of commercial conflict and shares intellectual capital across the public sector.

Visit: Local Partnerships (external link)

The Environment Agency (EA) Wales is an Welsh Government Sponsored Public Body. Information on the work of the EA can be found on their website.

Visit: The Environment Agency Wales (external link)

We partially fund the Wales Centre of Excellence for Anaerobic Digestion (AD) to provide technical support for the rapid deployment of anaerobic digestion in Wales. The AD Centre is based in the Sustainable Environment Research Centre at the University of Glamorgan, Wales.

Visit: The Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Centre of Excellence (external link)