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Container Shipment of Waste to Shetland

Buyer: Orkney Islands Council →

BuyerOrkney Islands Council
StatusAwarded
Deadline15 Dec 2025
Value£3,000,000
Published5 Mar 2026

What is being bought

The provision of shipment of waste materials and provision of standard ISO 20ft containers for the shipment of the majority of waste materials from Orkney to Shetland.

Delivery location

UKM65

Categories

Containers for waste material 44613800Refuse transport services 90512000Refuse and waste related services 90500000

Lot details

Lot 1

The provision of shipment of waste materials and provision of standard ISO 20ft containers for the shipment of the majority of waste materials from Orkney to Shetland. The provider will receive and exchange ISO 20ft containers on and off OIC vehicles in Orkney and transfer full waste containers for disposal or recover to waste management facilities located on the Shetland Islands.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Method Statement — 30
price — 70

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Refuse transport services, Containers for waste materialNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 44. The category anchor is Containers for waste material (44613800); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 441,7365 median · 44.3 average (427 of 1,736 with a bid count)6.1 average (475 of 1,736 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKM650Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)1803 median · 4.3 average (3 of 180 with a bid count)1.7 average (3 of 180 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

019807-2026-OIC/PROC/2264-1

Statusactive
Value£3,000,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05e03e
Latest release ID019807-2026
Latest release timestampThu Mar 05 2026 11:03:06 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
5 Mar 2026award, contract019807-2026
22 Dec 2025tenderUpdate085377-2025
12 Dec 2025tenderUpdate082548-2025
13 Nov 2025tender073465-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (4 releases)
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13 Nov 2025 · 073465-2025 · tender
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