URL: https://www.fenland.gov.uk/localgov/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=1141

Decision Maker: Corporate Director

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: Yes

Is Callable In?: No

Purpose: To approve orders for stock supplies required for the Refuse and Cleansing Service, Bins and Bags for the year April 2026 to March 2027.

Content: To place orders through the ESPO framework via direct aware of mini competitions for wheeled bins and refuse sacks to be put into stock.  Yearly purchases circa £95k bins and £40k bags. Material stocks are required to support the Council’s Refuse and Cleansing Service so that there are no interruptions to the service.  Therefore, stocks are essential for the day-to-day activities of the service.   An ESPO framework is available to the Council already pre-tendered to allow orders to be raised to approved suppliers by direct award or mini competitions.  Tender for supplies just for FDC only, this would not give us the economies of scale we currently enjoy using the ESPO buying Consortium and wider ranging offer. Legal and Procurement Implications   This a PA2023 compliant framework.   Financial Implications   There is an approved budget for this extension.  

Date of Decision: May 15, 2026