Find a Tender
complete
Official procurement procedure
Collection of Waste, Street Cleansing and Ancillary Services
Sewage
refuse
cleaning and environmental services
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
Generated from official OCDS record
Tenderline Synopsis: Westminster City Council: "Collection of Waste, Street Cleansing and Ancillary Services". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
| Contracting Authority | Westminster City Council | Scope & Categories | Not published | Submission Window | complete No deadline published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Submission Gateway | Direct notice route | Legal Basis & Regime | Standard procurement | Estimated Value (exc. VAT) | Not published |
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Westminster City Council
Market Analytics
Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Westminster City Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Competition Density
3.1Bids / Report
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate availablePayment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Coverage: 86 active published awards; 66 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityWestminster City Council | Procedure methodNot published | Procurement categoryNot published |
Statuscomplete | Framework / DPSNot published | CompetitionNot published |
Above thresholdNot published | Legal basisNot published | Tender period startsNot published |
Clarification deadlineNot published | Electronic submissionNot published | Submission languagesNot published |
Published8 Aug 2023, 16:09 BST | Last source update8 Aug 2023, 16:09 BST | Recurring procurementNot published |
ClassificationSewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services | ||
Delivery area | ||
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-03ee03 | ||
What is being bought
Collection of Waste, Street Cleansing and Ancillary Services in Westminster City Council’s administrative area. This VEAT notice is in respect of a proposed extension to the contract awarded in 2010. It is not the award of a new contract. See additional information at Sections II.2.4, IV.1.1 and Annex D.
What changed
From the official release history
- Status changed to complete
8 Aug 2023, 16:09 BST - Official notice release published
8 Aug 2023, 16:09 BST - Buyer information updated
8 Aug 2023, 16:09 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
- Lot 1 · #1Individual lot title not publishedStatus not publishedPublished valueNot publishedThe Council is not awarding a new contract, it is modifying an existing contract awarded to Veolia ES (UK) Limited (“Veolia”) on 16th September 2010 to extend the term of the contract by a further three years. See further information at IV.1.1 and Annex D.Contract periodNot publishedEligibilityNot publishedOptions / renewalNot published
Timeline
- Procedure published
8 Aug 2023, 16:09 BST - Award active
Not published · Not published - Contract active
Signed 8 Aug 2023, 00:00 BST · £795,662,526
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards Veolia ES (UK) Limited Not published · Not published · active |
Contracts Collection of Waste, Street Cleansing and Ancillary Services £795,662,526 · signed 8 Aug 2023, 00:00 BST · active |
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published |
Buyer and organisations in this procedure
Westminster City Council
Contracting authority GB-FTS-5427Documents (0)
Official links; attachments are not copied
No linked documents are published
Related procedures (0)
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published |
No-engagement rationaleNot published |
Procedure rationaleThis notice does not relate to the award of a new contract, but rather the modification of an existing contract described at Section II.2.4 above (the “2010 Contract”). The Council considers that the proposed modification to the 2010 Contract must necessarily be carried out by the current contractor pursuant to Regulation 72(1)(b) Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (‘PCR’) and is not ‘substantial’ pursuant to Regulation 72(1)(e) PCR. Accordingly the modification may lawfully be agreed between the parties and implemented without the need to conduct a fresh procurement procedure.
Regulation 72(1)(b) PCR has been satisfied for the following reasons:
• The Council considers that the current contractor must continue to provide the services for the extension period for economic and technical reasons as Veolia provides the depot sites for the services and there is no other suitable land currently available in the region. The Council has conducted a land availability exercise and is in the process of finding land to develop its own depot solution in order to offer these facilities to all potential bidders and thereby run a meaningful procurement exercise in the near future.
• Soft market testing of the relevant waste industry, conducted by the Council, has shown that were the Council to advertise a relet of the services at this time, only the current contractor would be able to meet its tendered requirements, and this would likely be at a significantly higher price than the current contract for the same level of service, due to the lack of available land other than that held by the current contractor. Therefore a change of contractor would cause substantial duplication of costs for the Council.
The Council’s forecasting exercise shows that the extension period is commensurate with the period required to procure and develop its depot solution. Further, the value of the extension will not exceed 50% of the original contract value in accordance with Regulation 72(1)(b) PCR. The original contract value was £518,000,000, the anticipated spend to 15 September 2024 is £594,576,840 and the value of the proposed 3-year extension is £201,085,686.
Further, the proposed modification is not ‘substantial’ within the meaning set out in Regulations 72(1)(e) and 72(8) PCR for the following reasons:
• The character of the 2010 Contract and the services to be delivered by the Contractor will remain substantially the same and is not rendered materially different in character from the one originally concluded.
• The extended contract term would have made no difference to the outcome of the procurement had it been part of the initial procurement procedure.
• The proposed extension does not considerably extend the scope of the 2010 Contract.
• The proposed extension does not change the economic balance of the 2010 Contract in favour of the Contractor in a manner not provided for in the 2010 Contract.
• There is to be no replacement of the contractor to whom the Council had initially awarded the 2010 Contract.
Notwithstanding the above and without prejudice to the Council’s reasons for considering the proposed modification to be permitted under Regulation 72 PCR, in the event that the proposed modification is deemed to be an award of contract under the PCR, it would in any case be permitted under Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) PCR because competition is absent for technical reasons and no reasonable alternative or substitute exists, and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement. As described above, market testing has demonstrated that the services can only be provided by the current contractor due to the lack of available land meaning that no other provider would currently be able to provide the contract. |