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title: "1046 - Purchase of Containers Contract"
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# 1046 - Purchase of Containers Contract

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/1046-purchase-of-containers-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-042967). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Essex County Council: "1046 - Purchase of Containers Contract". Published status: complete. Published Value: £174,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 21 Jan 2024, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Essex County Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/essex-county-council-ons-e10000012)
- **Published Value:** £174,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 21 January 2024 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Containers for waste material
- **Delivery Location:** UKH
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £158,311 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-042967`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/1046-purchase-of-containers-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-042967#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/1046-purchase-of-containers-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-042967#participate

## Description
Essex is a large county with almost 1.5 million residents generating approximately 700,000 tonnes of local authority collected waste per annum. As the statutory Waste Disposal Authority for Essex, Essex County Council (the Authority) is responsible for providing a range of infrastructure and arrangements for the management of waste.
The Authority operate 21 Recycling Centres for Household Waste (RCHW) and 4 Waste Transfer Stations (WTS), and work closely with the 12 borough, city and district councils who are the Waste Collection Authorities (WCA) within the county of Essex.
The Authority are awarding a contract for the provision of a quantity of twenty nine (29) new, forty (40) cubic yard open containers to enable the RCHW sites within the waste service to operate safely and compliantly.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 44613800
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Estimated Value:** £174,000
- **Description:** Essex is a large county with almost 1.5 million residents generating approximately 700,000 tonnes of local authority collected waste per annum. As the statutory Waste Disposal Authority for Essex, Essex County Council (the Authority) is responsible f...
- **Contract Period:** 05/02/2024 to 31/03/2024

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 003305-2024-1046 Purchase of Containers Contract-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **GJF Fabrications Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-124912`
  - Value: £158,311 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 003305-2024-1046 Purchase of Containers Contract-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £158,311
  - Signed Date: 01/02/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F003305-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-02-01T09:54:38.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T04:48:22.565Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-042967