Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Group & Ors (recycling sorting)

The Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Group (MWRRG), on behalf of itself and a group of thirty councils located in metropolitan Melbourne, is seeking to collaboratively investigate, and potentially procure, the provision of sorting services for commingled recyclable material that is collected from residents’ kerbsides (Recycling Sorting Services).

MWRRG, on behalf of the councils, seeks authorisation for:

• MWRRG, on behalf of the councils, to conduct a collaborative competitive tender process for the procurement of the Recycling Sorting Services, evaluate responses in collaboration with the councils and to negotiate on behalf of the councils the contractual framework,
• The possible establishment of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) by the councils to enter into contract(s) for Recycling Sorting Services with the successful supplier(s), and
• The ongoing administration and management of the resulting contracts.

(the Proposed Conduct). 

A copy of the application is available by the following link below.

Submissions from interested parties have now closed. The ACCC will now prepare a draft determination after providing the Applicant with an opportunity to respond to issues raised in the public consultation process.

On 25 September 2019, the ACCC granted interim authorisation to enable commencement of the tender process for the joint procurement of the Recycling Sorting Services.

Indicative timetable for assessment of the application