Official UK procurement notice
Prior Information Notice - Waste Management Services
Authority: Western Riverside Waste Authority (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTo inform the development of the Outline Business Case and procurement strategy, WRWA is engaging with the market to better understand the interest, capacity and infrastructure the market has in providing the Services (in their entirety or specific elements or a proportion of specific elements).
CPV: Household-refuse disposal services · Non-hazardous refuse and waste treatment and disposal services · Refuse and waste related services · Refuse disposal and treatment · Refuse recycling services · Urban solid-refuse disposal services · Waste transfer station
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1WRWA is responsible for the treatment of municipal waste collected by the London…Planned
WRWA is responsible for the treatment of municipal waste collected by the London Boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham, Lambeth and Wandsworth and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (the Constituent Councils). WRWA is also responsible for the provision of a Household Waste and Recycling Centre.
The current integrated Waste Management Services Agreement (WMSA), signed in 2002 with Cory Environmental Limited (Cory), includes infrastructure for waste reception, transfer, a materials recovery facility (MRF), bulk transport (mainly riparian), treatment through energy from waste and the provision of a Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) for use by the general public (collectively “the Services”). Cory has a number of sub-contractors for selected services, including the haulage and offtake of MRF materials. The WMSA Contract expires in October 2032. Further details on WRWA and the services it provides can be found in our Annual Report.
A new Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy (JMWMS) for WRWA and its Constituent Councils for the period from 2025 to 2040 is being developed and is due to be completed by the end of 2024. The JMWMS will set out a direction of travel for the future management of waste for WRWA and its constituent councils including an ambition to:
- reduce the environmental impact of its operations;
- increase recycling levels; and
- lower costs.
Further details on the development of the joint strategy can be found at www.wrwa.gov.uk ↗.
WRWA is currently developing its Outline Business Case and procurement strategy to deliver new arrangements that conform with the JMWMS in time for expiry of the WMSA (the "Requirement").
To inform the development of the Outline Business Case and procurement strategy, WRWA is engaging with the market to better understand the interest, capacity and infrastructure the market has in providing the Services (in their entirety or specific elements or a proportion of specific elements).
Consequently, WRWA invites you to respond to some or all of the questions set out in the Preliminary Market Consultation Questionnaire, depending on which areas are more pertinent to your business. WRWA may also invite respondents to an in-person meeting to discuss responses in greater detail.
The Preliminary Market Consultation Briefing Note is available from myTenders.
All responses to the questions will be taken into account in the development of WRWA’s Outline Business Case and procurement strategy. Additional information: This market consultation exercise does not constitute a call for competition to procure any services for WRWA and the WRWA is not bound to accept any proposals offered.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Western Riverside Waste Authority buys Refuse and waste related services (CPV 9050), and who usually turns up
Western Riverside Waste Authority has little published record in this market. 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.
Across this market, small firms won 17% of awards with a known supplier size.
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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 Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Across this market, 41% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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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 39 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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Across this market, at least 36% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
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 bid35%
2–340%
4–620%
7+5%
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 estimate47%
Within ±2%33%
Above estimate20%
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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.
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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 #1WRWA is responsible for the treatment of municipal waste collected by the London…CPV 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 20 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid35%
2–340%
4–620%
7+5%
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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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Oct 2023, 12:23 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Oct 2023, 12:23 BST
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-031457- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
25 Oct 2023 → 1 Jan 2027 · 2 dates- Notice published25 Oct 2023, 12:23 BST
- Today23 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 69 days1 Jan 2027
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.