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Published 16 Oct 2026, 13:22 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Commercial Waste and Recycling Services

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Wokingham Borough Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: Cleaning & Environmental Services (90) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Jul 2030 · up to 31 Jul 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Aug 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The provision of a Commercial Waste and Recycling Collection and Disposal Service including general, recycling, food and glass waste for multiple opted in sites across the Borough.

Purpose of this market engagement

Wokingham Borough Council (WBC) is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the procurement of a new waste and recycling contract. The exercise provides suppliers with early visibility of the Council’s current service and seeks feedback on:

  • market capability and service design;
  • collection models and treatment and disposal routes;
  • mobilisation, innovation and sustainability;
  • reporting and commercial approaches.

Responses will help WBC refine the contract scope, specification, procurement route and pricing model.

CPV: Refuse collection services · Refuse recycling services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrs
Contract period: 1 Aug 2027 – 31 Jul 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 31 Jul 2032 with extensions
Extensions: Extension options published
90511000 Refuse collection services90514000 Refuse recycling services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Wokingham Borough Council buys Refuse disposal and treatment (CPV 9051), and who usually turns up

Wokingham Borough 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 disposal and treatment (CPV 9051) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerWokingham Borough Council · all categories
The marketRefuse disposal and treatment (CPV 9051)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 13 of 18 known-size awards · market: CPV 9051 · South East England (authority’s region), n=14
72%29%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 South East England (authority’s region).

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 14 of 24 known-location awards · market: CPV 9051 · South East England (authority’s region), n=16
58%38%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East England.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 9051 · South East England (authority’s region), n=6
—147 days

Half of these awards were announced within 147 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 1 of 30 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 9051 · South East England (authority’s region), n=16
3%25%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer8 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market9 lots with bid counts · CPV 9051 · South East England (authority’s region)
22% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 22%
Buyer: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 9 lots with published bid counts.
2–338% / 67%
Buyer: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 9 lots with published bid counts.
4–650% / 11%
Buyer: 4 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 9 lots with published bid counts.
7+13% / 0%
Buyer: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 9 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer1 lot with estimate and award · broad CPV 90 · too few to chart
The market100 lots with estimate and award · CPV 9051 · UK-wide
40% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate40%
Market: 40 of 100 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%35%
Market: 35 of 100 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate25%
Market: 25 of 100 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 905136 monthsEstimate not published
Expected competition
i

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 199 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet17% single-bid risk
Past bids on 199 similar lots
1 bid17%
33 of 199 similar past lots received 1 bid (17%).
2–321%
42 of 199 similar past lots received 2–3 (21%).
4–638%
75 of 199 similar past lots received 4–6 (38%).
7+25%
49 of 199 similar past lots received 7+ (25%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Shorts Group LimitedEarlier contractCommercial Waste and Recycling Servicesnotice published May 2022—£662kMatched as the earlier contract

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.

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.

What this replaces
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

100% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (100% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Commercial Waste and Recycling Services — held by Shorts Group Limited; no contract end date published.

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
16 Oct 2026, 13:22 BST
Last source update
16 Oct 2026, 13:22 BST
Authority reference
DN833316
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097956
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Refuse collection servicesRefuse recycling services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07898a Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

16 Oct 2026 → 1 Aug 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published5 days ago
    16 Oct 2026, 13:22 BST
  2. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  3. Market engagementin 9 days
    30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Questionnaire - Purpose of this market engagement

    Wokingham Borough Council (WBC) is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the procurement of a new waste and recycling contract. The exercise provides suppliers with early visibility of the Council’s current service and seeks feedback on:

    • market capability and service design;
    • collection models and treatment and disposal routes;
    • mobilisation, innovation and sustainability;
    • reporting and commercial approaches.

    Responses will help WBC refine the contract scope, specification, procurement route and pricing model.

    Closing date 30 Oct 2026

  4. Contract startsin 283 days
    1 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    16 Oct 2026, 13:22 BST
    UK2

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

Wokingham Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PNTM-6852-HGRP Civic Offices, Shute End, Wokingham, South East, RG40 1BNContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure