Official UK procurement notice
P-3531 Collection and Disposal of Hazardous Waste
Authority: Translink (Public body)
Translink are seeking a competent supplier to provide a service for the collection and disposal of hazardous waste from all Translink Engineering locations across Northern Ireland. In providing the service, the Supplier will have to comply with all relevant environmental legislation and Translink policies and procedures.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTranslink are seeking a competent supplier to provide a service for the collection and disposal of hazardous waste from all Translink Engineering locations across Northern Ireland.
In providing the service, the Supplier will have to comply with all relevant environmental legislation and Translink policies and procedures.
Examples of the hazardous waste include, but not limited to,
AdBlue, Antifreeze, Aerosols, Batteries (Lithium, Alkaline, Lead Acid, Wet Cell Nickel Cadmium, Fluorescent Tubes, Oil Absorbent rags + granules, Oil/Fuel Filters, Paint Cans, Solvents and Waste Oils.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 1 Dec 2033, 23:59 GMT.
CPV: Refuse and waste related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Translink buys Refuse and waste related services (CPV 9050), and who usually turns up
Translink’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 Northern Ireland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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 40 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.
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.
1 bid27% / 38%
2–332% / 59%
4–632% / 3%
7+10% / 0%
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 estimate13% / 41%
Within ±2%59% / 36%
Above estimate28% / 23%
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 9050Estimate not published
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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 32 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid38%
2–359%
4–63%
7+0%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Thomas Hamill & SonsLive contract | P-3277 Collection and Disposal of Scrap Metal - Railruns to Jan 2031 | — | £135k | Matched 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.
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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. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
- 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.
43% title match.
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.
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
P-3277 Collection and Disposal of Scrap Metal - Rail — held by Thomas Hamill & Sons; the published contract ends 4 Jan 2031.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · next expected 1 Dec 2033
- First published
- 5 Nov 2026, 11:30 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Nov 2026, 11:30 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 15 Feb 2027
- Authority reference
P-3531- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105086- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b3c7Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 14 Jan 2027, 13:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 7 Jan 2027, 13:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Only bids submitted electronically through eTendersNI will be accepted.
Timeline
5 Nov 2026 → 7 Apr 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published13h ago5 Nov 2026, 11:30 GMT
- Today6 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 31 days7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification questions byin 62 days7 Jan 2027, 13:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 69 days14 Jan 2027, 13:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 101 days15 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 151 days7 Apr 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published5 Nov 2026, 11:30 GMTUK3
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender