Official UK procurement notice
Municipal Resource Management Services 2031-2040
Authority: Hampshire County Council (Local council)·Consortium: 3 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHampshire County Council, Portsmouth City Council and Southampton City Council intend to procure a contract covering the prevention, recycling and disposal of municipal waste in early 2027. It is recognised that the organisations above are part of the Governments devolution fast track programme the timeline of which is likely to interact with this procurement.
This contract will apply the waste hierarchy by prioritising prevention and reuse to minimise overall household waste arisings while delivering wider environmental, social and economic benefits to the local area. The authorities will be seeking to maximise recycling as the next level of the hierarchy with final disposal, to generate electricity, the final option. This will require the operation and maintenance of a suite of waste handling, sorting and processing infrastructure across the above geographic area as well as the onwards management of materials to suitable and sustainable off takes.
The current arrangements are due to expire in December 2030, although the option for a 5 year extension is available to the Councils. The Councils have not yet determined the structure of the future arrangements and will be engaging with the market in the coming months through the publication of a Preliminary Market Engagement Notice to inform these decisions. This activity will explore key areas including:
- Application of the waste hierarchy
- Potential for a fully integrated contract
- Utilisation of lots, either on a geographical or material processing approach
- Infrastructure utilisation
- Risk appetite
- Contract length
- Application of the waste hierarchy
- Future proofing of systems and infrastructure
Subject to the outcomes of the above engagement it is anticipated that the arrangement would be for a minimum of 10 years with the potential for extensions to be considered.
The estimated outline programme for the procurement is likely to be:
2025 - 2026 - Soft market engagement and options analysis
2026 - 2027 - Procurement strategy development
2027 - Initiate Procurement
CPV: 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 Hampshire County Council buys Refuse and waste related services (CPV 9050), and who usually turns up
Hampshire 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: 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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 9 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.
Both shares are minimums: 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 bid13% / 40%
2–327% / 47%
4–623% / 11%
7+37% / 2%
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 estimate28% / 41%
Within ±2%72% / 30%
Above estimate0% / 30%
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 9050Published estimate£1.0bn
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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 45 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid40%
2–347%
4–611%
7+2%
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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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 20 Jun 2025, 15:47 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Jun 2025, 12:57 BST
- Authority reference
UN27276- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-034375- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05511eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
20 Jun 2025 → 1 Jan 2031 · 4 dates- Planning notice published20 Jun 2025, 15:47 BST
- Latest notice published23 Jun 2025, 12:57 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 75 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts1 Jan 2031
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 Jun 2025- Pipeline notice published20 Jun 2025, 15:47 BSTUK1
- Pipeline notice published23 Jun 2025, 12:57 BSTUK1
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
3 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Portsmouth City CouncilContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
- Southampton City CouncilContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender