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NATIONAL Freight Consortium has won its first contract for atised refuse collection, and is pursuing other contracts to take r local councils' services.
aste Management, a memof NFC's Pickfords Group, is ing over Taunton Dean rict Council's domestic recollection service on April 1, ing won the contract in the of competition from six prii-sector operators and from council's own direct-labour artment.
le five-year contract will the Somerset council 10,000, with the present iur force of around 40 being iced to 22. Waste ManageIt hopes to fill most of the ancies from the existing ncil workforce.
even refuse collection lorries also being taken over by Its Management, and these be maintained by the sister etcare company, part of :'s National Services Group. manager will be appointed un the operation, and Waste nagement says it wants neone with experience of 31 authority refuse collection vities.
his is Waste Management's t contract in South West EngI, and the company hopes Lit will give it an entry to that t of the country.
IFC chairman Peter Thompi revealed in October (CM, ober 16) that Waste Managent wanted to break into the 'Wised refuse collection marand the Taunton contract nes after eight or nine tendwere rejected by other coun believes that this break through gives it credibility in the market, and it is now subrnitting three more tenders to other councils, as well as having discussions with four others. These potential contracts are in North-West and South-West England, and in the London area. So far, other privatised schemes have been won by the Brengreen Group, Biffa, and the Alfred Marks Group. Maldon (Essex) and Southend were among the first to sub-contract their refuse collection, but Birmingham City Council recently rejected privatisation in favour of a five-year contract with its existing labour force, starting on Monday this week.