Tender: Preliminary Market Engagement for New Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) at Farington Waste Recovery Park, Leyland

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Lancashire Renewables Limited is seeking suppliers to engage in a preliminary market engagement for the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) at Farington Waste Recovery Park, Leyland. The existing MRF, commissioned about 15 years ago, processes dry mixed recyclables but is constrained by design capacity, ageing infrastructure, process bottlenecks, variable output quality and limited ability to recover additional materials. Lancashire Renewables manages approximately 65,000 tonnes per annum of dry mixed recyclables, of which around 50,000 tonnes per annum can currently be processed at Farington; the existing plant operates at an estimated average throughput of ~16 tonnes per hour and does not separately target paper, card, cartons or flexible plastics. An independent feasibility study considered refurbishment, a new advanced MRF and a hybrid solution, identifying a new MRF as the most robust long-term option while noting higher capital needs and the need for further design and commercial validation. Market understanding previously suggested a new-MRF cost of £13–15m, while the feasibility assessment produced an indicative total project cost closer to £20m and an approximate delivery period of 3–4 years; these figures are not a budget or target price. Lancashire Renewables seeks engagement from experienced MRF designers and builders, process-equipment integrators, principal contractors and organisations capable of turnkey, EPC or EPCM delivery, with consortium or supply-chain responses welcome and requests that expressions of interest address the questions in the attached UK2 PME notice.