Fed-up local authorities lose patience with JV as delays drag on at 拢145m plant
The east Midlands councils threatening to boot an Interserve team from a lucrative waste management contract because it has still not finished an energy-from-waste plant have now begun steps to replace the pair.
Derby city council and Derbyshire county council have issued a Prior Information Notice (PIN) alerting rivals to the 鈥減ossible end of [our] long term waste management contract with [Interserve joint venture] Resource Recovery Solutions [RRS]鈥�.
Interserve and JV partner, waste management specialist Renewi, signed a 27 year deal worth 拢950m with the local authorities five years ago which, as well as building the 拢145m plant at Sinfin in Derby, also includes work to operate and manage nine household waste recycling centres and manage a further two waste transfer stations.
Interserve has had sole responsibility for building the plant but more than two years after its spring 2017 deadline has failed to hand it over 鈥� despite entering the commissioning phase in J