Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 26 Jun 2026, 10:11 BST

Official UK procurement notice

HWRC Waste Treatment and Disposal Services

Authority: Rutland County Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£1,815,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 15 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 31 Mar 2032 · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Rutland County Council is undertaking soft market testing to engage with suppliers on the potential provision of waste treatment and disposal services from its Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs). This exercise aims to gather market feedback on delivery models, capacity, and risks to help inform any future procurement approach.

CPV: Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 5 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2032 (5 yrs)
Delivery: East MidlandsEligibility: SME eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Rutland County Council buys Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental (CPV 90), and who usually turns up

Rutland County Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental (CPV 90) →

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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 buyerRutland County Council · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 14 of 32 known-size awards · market: division 90 · East Midlands, n=209
44%47%

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East Midlands.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 25 of 56 known-location awards · market: division 90 · East Midlands, n=318
45%24%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 12 decided notices · market: division 90 · East Midlands, n=91
44 days43 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 44 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 32 of 54 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 90 · East Midlands, n=300
59%27%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer12 lots with bid counts · all categories
8% had one bid
The market166 lots with bid counts · division 90 · East Midlands
17% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid8% / 17%
Buyer: 1 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 28 of 166 lots with published bid counts.
2–325% / 25%
Buyer: 3 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 42 of 166 lots with published bid counts.
4–617% / 24%
Buyer: 2 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 40 of 166 lots with published bid counts.
7+50% / 34%
Buyer: 6 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 56 of 166 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer14 lots with estimate and award · all categories
21% below estimate
The market117 lots with estimate and award · division 90 · East Midlands
31% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate21% / 31%
Buyer: 3 of 14 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 36 of 117 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%64% / 43%
Buyer: 9 of 14 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 50 of 117 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate14% / 26%
Buyer: 2 of 14 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 31 of 117 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 9060 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£1.8m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 90. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
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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 166 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet17% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 166 similar lots
1 bid17%
28 of 166 similar past lots received 1 bid (17%).
2–325%
42 of 166 similar past lots received 2–3 (25%).
4–624%
40 of 166 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+34%
56 of 166 similar past lots received 7+ (34%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £1.8m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Mick George LtdLive contractTHE PROVISION OF HOUSEHOLD WASTE DISPOSAL AND TREATMENT SERVICES FOR PLASTERBOARD IN RUTLANDruns to Mar 2031—£48kMatched 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
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

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

43% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (43% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

THE PROVISION OF HOUSEHOLD WASTE DISPOSAL AND TREATMENT SERVICES FOR PLASTERBOARD IN RUTLAND — held by Mick George Ltd; the published contract ends 31 Mar 2031.

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
26 Jun 2026, 10:11 BST
Last source update
26 Jun 2026, 10:11 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-060150
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF2)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bdbd Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

26 Jun 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published121 days ago
    26 Jun 2026, 10:11 BST
  2. Tender notice expected102 days ago
    15 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  3. Market engagement102 days ago
    15 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    Rutland County Council is undertaking soft market testing to inform the potential provision of HWRC waste treatment and disposal services. The Council is seeking feedback on delivery models, market capacity, and risks.

    Interested suppliers should access the questionnaire and submit responses via ProContract:

    procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

    The deadline for responses is 12:00 noon on 15 July 2026. This is not a call for competition.

  4. Today
    25 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 157 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    26 Jun 2026, 10:11 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

Rutland County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PMQJ-3429-NZWQ Catmos House, Oakham, East Midlands, LE15 6HPContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure