Refuse disposal and treatment: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition
CPV 90510000·Services · class·in Cleaning & Environmental Services
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid for a lot here.
The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 180 lots from 116 competitions run by 77 buyers, last 36 months. A buyer with many similar contests counts only up to a limit. 99 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 81 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).
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What a contract here is usually worth.
Middle value of published award values, VAT excluded. Framework ceilings are left out because they are not real contract values.
Based on 211 awards with a usable value, last 36 months.
Published values, not actual spend.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Based on 63 decided competitions, last 36 months.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Newest open tenders
3 of 29 open for bids now · newest first
| Notice | Authority | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| CBC-2172-T-SD Waste Treatment Disposal Capacity | Central Bedfordshire Council | 26 Nov 2026 | 20d | £8,300,000 |
| Altus Education Partnership - Waste Management Services | ALTUS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | 27 Nov 2026 | 21d | £260,000 |
| THE HAULAGE AND RECYCLING OF GLASS PACKAGING COLLECTED ON BEHALF OF WEST OXFORDSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL | West Oxfordshire District Council | 24 Nov 2026 | 19d | — |
Codes and neighbouring classes
The 8-digit CPV codes notices in this class actually use, and the other classes of the same division
90514000 Refuse recycling services296 notices · 41%90510000 Refuse disposal and treatment187 notices · 26%90511000 Refuse collection services102 notices · 14%90512000 Refuse transport services81 notices · 11%90511200 Household-refuse collection services25 notices · 3%90513800 Sludge treatment services25 notices · 3%90513100 Household-refuse disposal services21 notices · 3%- Cleaning services 576 · 12m
- Refuse and waste related services 312 · 12m
- Environmental management 261 · 12m
- Environmental services 157 · 12m
- Asbestos removal services 90 · 12m
- Facility related sanitation services 84 · 12m
- Radioactive-, toxic-, medical- and hazardous waste services 79 · 12m
- Pollution tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation 73 · 12m
- Environmental protection 49 · 12m
- Cleaning and sanitation services 47 · 12m
- All of Cleaning & Environmental Services →
Who buysi
Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
All notices carrying this code · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities), else derived from the authority name
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.
Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.
Local authorities64%(464 notices)
464 of 721 notices are Local authorities (64%).Other public bodies17%(119 notices)
119 of 721 notices are Other public bodies (17%).Central government9%(63 notices)
63 of 721 notices are Central government (9%).Education & universities3%(24 notices)
24 of 721 notices are Education & universities (3%).Police, fire & emergency1%(9 notices)
9 of 721 notices are Police, fire & emergency (1%).Not classified6%(42 notices)
42 of 721 notices are Not classified (6%).
| Contracting authority | Type | Notices | Last 12 months | Open now |
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| Norse Commercial Services Limited | Other public bodies | 14 | 4 | 0 |
| City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council | Local authorities | 13 | 9 | 0 |
| Cardiff Council | Local authorities | 12 | 3 | 0 |
| City & County of Swansea | Local authorities | 10 | 3 | 0 |
| East Ayrshire Council | Local authorities | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council | Local authorities | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Fermanagh and Omagh District Council | Local authorities | 9 | 4 | 1 |
| Lancashire County Council | Local authorities | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| Bath & North East Somerset Council | Local authorities | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| Bristol Waste Company | Other public bodies | 8 | 1 | 0 |
308 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.
Where the work is deliveredi
Where the work on these notices is delivered.
Delivery regions published on the notices. A notice with several regions counts in each.
Where the work is, not where the buyer is based.
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Where the work on these notices is delivered.
Delivery regions published on the notices. A notice with several regions counts in each.
Where the work is, not where the buyer is based.
Delivery regions (ITL1) published on 633 of 727 notices · a notice covering several regions counts in each · competition columns: contracts awarded in the last 36 months, lots delivered in the region
| Region | Notices | Bids / lot | SME wins | Local wins |
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| East of England | 2 | 54% | 39% | |
| Wales (Cymru) | 3 | 71% | 47% | |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 3 | 48% | 41% | |
| Scotland | 3 | 73% | 92% | |
| Northern Ireland | 2 | 100% | 100% | |
| South West England | 3 | 45% | 30% | |
| East Midlands | 3 | 33% | 36% | |
| South East England | 3 | 24% | 40% | |
| North West England | 3 | 53% | 41% | |
| West Midlands | 3 | 39% | 25% | |
| Greater London | 3 | 33% | 53% | |
| North East England | 3 | 42% | 13% |
Local wins = the winner’s registered region is the delivery region. Dashes: fewer than ten observations.
How it is boughti
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Commercial tool, procedure route and threshold as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract89%(645 notices)
645 of 727 notices are Contract (89%).Framework10%(76 notices)
76 of 727 notices are Framework (10%).Dynamic purchasing system1%(6 notices)
6 of 727 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (1%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Open56%(407 notices)
407 of 727 notices are Open (56%).Route not published22%(160 notices)
160 of 727 notices are Route not published (22%).Selective9%(62 notices)
62 of 727 notices are Selective (9%).Limited / restricted7%(54 notices)
54 of 727 notices are Limited / restricted (7%).Direct award6%(44 notices)
44 of 727 notices are Direct award (6%).
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How much of this market is above the legal threshold.
Notices by whether the buyer marked them above or below the threshold that triggers the full rules.
Above threshold77%(138 notices)
138 of 179 notices are Above threshold (77%).Below threshold23%(41 notices)
41 of 179 notices are Below threshold (23%).
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How long bidders get to respond.
Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.
Competition
Contracts published in the last 36 months (309) · bid counts per lot from award notices · values are net contract awards, framework and DPS ceilings excluded · SME and local status as declared
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid34%(61)
61 of 180 lots fall in 1 bid (34%).2–345%(81)
81 of 180 lots fall in 2–3 (45%).4–618%(33)
33 of 180 lots fall in 4–6 (18%).7 or more3%(5)
5 of 180 lots fall in 7 or more (3%).
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The usual range of contract values here.
The middle half of published award values, VAT excluded, with the middle value marked. Framework ceilings are left out.
Published values, not actual spend.
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How many companies usually bid for a lot here.
The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 180 lots from 116 competitions run by 77 buyers, last 36 months. A buyer with many similar contests counts only up to a limit. 99 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 81 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).
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How much of this market is actually put out to competition.
Notices run as an open or selective procedure, out of all notices that say which procedure was used. Direct awards count as not competed.
211 of 290 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 19 more are call-offs or give no procedure and are left out.
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What share of bids come from small and medium firms.
SME bids divided by all bids, on lots where the buyer published the split.
271 SME bids out of 403, on 160 lots where the buyer published the split.
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What share of contracts go to small and medium firms.
Awards to a single supplier that declared its size. SME divided by all.
123 of 203 awards where the winner declared its size.
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How much work here goes to companies based in the region.
Contract awards where the winner’s registered address is in this region, out of awards where the address is known.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Do winners come in above or below the buyer’s estimate.
For each lot we compare the published estimate with the award, like for like. Below means the winner was paid less than estimated, above means more.
Based on 100 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 36 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How often a tender ends with no award.
Notices cancelled, withdrawn or marked unsuccessful, plus terminated ones that never got an award.
7 of 309 notices, last 36 months.
Only what buyers published. Tenders that quietly went nowhere are not counted.
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How many companies apply to get onto a framework or DPS here.
Middle value per lot, frameworks and dynamic markets only. Getting onto a panel is not the same as winning work, so it is kept separate.
Based on 41 lots from 18 framework and DPS notices, last 36 months.
Who winsi
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
Ranked by distinct procedures won on notices carrying this code, then award records · 627 awards to 309 suppliers · the five most frequent winners hold 18% of contract awards in the last 36 months
| Supplier | Procedures | Awards | Last 12 months | Buyers |
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| Biffa Waste Services Ltd | 28 | 33 | 9 | 23 |
| VEOLIA ES (UK) LIMITED | 15 | 16 | 6 | 14 |
| SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd | 14 | 16 | 2 | 14 |
| H W Martin Waste Ltd | 11 | 11 | 5 | 9 |
| R. HEATRICK LTD | 10 | 20 | 6 | 4 |
| Bryson Recycling Ltd | 8 | 10 | 0 | 5 |
| FCC Recycling (UK) Limited | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| ReGen Waste Ltd | 6 | 10 | 4 | 6 |
Where to submiti
Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
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Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
E-sourcing portals named in the submission address · 322 of 727 notices name one · each portal page explains registration
Open tenders in refuse disposal and treatment
29 open for bids now · soonest deadline first
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
- What counts here. Every notice with a CPV code starting 9051. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Notices from 2021 to 2 Nov 2026.
- Competition. Bids and winners cover the last three years and count each lot as its own contest; frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems are shown apart from ordinary contracts.
- Why no total spend. Notice estimates often repeat a framework’s ceiling, so adding them up would overstate the market. Typical contract values are shown instead.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.