To seek approval to extend the Waste Collection and Street Cleansing Contract (North).

1.      To authorise Officers to issue a Voluntary Transparency Notice in the Official Journal of the European Union indicating the Council’s intention to agree an extension to the existing Waste Collection and Street Cleansing Contract (North).

2.      Subject to recommendation 1, to extend the contract for Waste and Recycling Collection and Street Cleansing for the north of Central Bedfordshire, for a period of two and a half years from 4 October 2016 to 31 March 2019 and for this purpose, to suspend the Council’s Contract Procedure Rules.