Improving Waste Management: A how-to guide for business groups
On average, Scottish businesses spend around £7,000 per year on waste.
The Improving Waste Management: A How-to Guide for Business Groups and its accompanying tools and templates have been developed to help business support groups engage with the businesses they represent to identify and implement collaborative waste management improvement opportunities.
The guide is suitable for:
- Business Improvement Districts (BIDS);
- Federation for Small Businesses
- Chambers of Commerce;
- traders associations;
- industry associations; and
- other local business support groups.
The guide takes you through the steps of collecting and analysing waste data from businesses;
Identifying and prioritising opportunities for action; and provides you with lots of useful tools, templates and further guidance along the way to turn opportunities into reality.
The tools which go along with this guide are:
Developing a baseline
Plan to succeed
Preferred supplier procurement
- Invitation to tender documents;
- Market engagement slides;
- Pricing schedule;
- Stage 1 evaluation spreadsheet;
- Stage 2 scoring spreadsheet;
- Preferred supplier agreement; and
- Procurement decision letters
The preferred supplier procurement tools guide you through the complete process of running a tender exercise, and should be employed sequentially as shown below:
