Official UK procurement notice
Clinical Waste Collection, Treatment, Recycling, Recovery and Disposal
Authority: Flintshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFlintshire County Council (“the Authority”) is seeking to engage with the market in advance of a potential procurement exercise for the provision of a kerbside clinical waste collection service, which would require the successful provider to take delivery of, or collect clinical waste from, a designated Authority site.
The proposed service may include the collection from designated storage area, transportation, treatment, and lawful disposal of clinical and offensive waste generated from residential properties within the Authority’s area.
The Authority wishes to understand supplier capabilities, market capacity, innovation opportunities, environmental considerations, and potential delivery models to help inform the future procurement strategy and service specification.
Suppliers are invited to participate in pre-market engagement discussions and provide feedback regarding operational requirements, collection logistics including frequencies, methods and documentation, container solutions, digital tracking systems, carbon reduction initiatives and social value opportunities.
CPV: Environmental services · Refuse and waste related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Flintshire County Council buys Refuse and waste related services (CPV 9050), and who usually turns up
Flintshire County Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Refuse and waste related services (CPV 9050) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Wales (Cymru).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Wales (Cymru).
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 22 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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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 bid0% / 4%
2–383% / 83%
4–617% / 13%
7+0% / 0%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate0% / 56%
Within ±2%83% / 44%
Above estimate17% / 0%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 9050No real estimate
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 23 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid4%
2–383%
4–613%
7+0%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
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.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- 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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 17 Jun 2026, 11:40 BST
- Last source update
- 17 Jun 2026, 11:40 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-057036- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b6d2Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
17 Jun 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published127 days ago17 Jun 2026, 11:40 BST
- Market engagement104 days ago10 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Pre-market engagement (PME) will be undertaken using a blended approach designed to maximise supplier input and market intelligence. This includes initial expressions of interests from suppliers, a structured supplier questionnaire for soft market testing, and if required the Authority may undertake with one-to-one engagement with suppliers to gain a deeper understanding of specific areas. .
The purpose of the engagement questionnaire will be to test market appetite and capacity, and to understand how the supply base could respond to the anticipated requirements. In particular, feedback is sought on the sector’s ability to deliver sufficient capacity, including scalability under varying demand scenarios and resilience of supply chains. Suppliers are also invited to outline innovative treatment solutions, including new or emerging approaches that could improve outcomes, efficiency, or service user experience.
Pricing mechanisms will be discussed to assess market views on appropriate models, such as fixed pricing, activity-based payments, or blended structures, and to understand how different approaches might impact risk transfer, value for money, and deliverability.
Overall, the engagement will provide valuable insight into market capability, preferred commercial structures, and potential innovation opportunities, helping to inform the development of a procurement strategy that is both realistic and aligned with current market conditions.
In the first instance suppliers are asked to express their interest in participating in the Pre-Market Engagement activities and indicate which areas of waste stream contracts they would be able to fulfil as well as their capacity, by e-mailing [email protected] by no later than 10/07/26
- Tender notice expected51 days ago1 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 160 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published17 Jun 2026, 11:40 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender