Solid Waste Sample and Contracts: Street cleaning and waste collection

The World Bank has developed a number of sample contracts for client countries for municipal solid waste collection, which are performance based and focused on outputs, which have been sanitized and summarized below:

• Contract for street sweeping and collection (prepared in French for country in Francophone country in North Africa)
• Contract for street sweeping and collection (and for operation of transfer stations and long distance transportation) (prepared in English for country in North Africa)

There are also a number of sample or model contracts in the public domain that have been developed around the world, a selection of which are set out below:

• South Australia - Local Government Association of South Australia – model contracts for waste collection
• Senegal - For small communities in Senegal – USAAID guide (PDF) - includes affermage contract between the Town Hall (mairie) and the comité de salubrité (in French)
• United Kingdom - Standard Form Contract for Waste Collection developed by Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM).
• Morocco - Sample delegated management contract and request for proposal for waste collection and street sweeping

Waste collection agreements annexed to the Guidance Pack (referred to above):

• USA - Model Contract Documents for Residential Solid Waste Collection and Disposal (PDF), Technical Bulletin # 85-7, November 1985, Solid Waste Association of North America
• USA - Restated Agreement between the City of Sunnyvale and Bay Counties Waste Services, Inc. for waste collection (PDF)
• Ghana - Sample contract or franchise agreement for sweeping or waste collection (PDF)
• St. Lucia - Solid waste collection (PDF)