Official UK procurement notice
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Southern Water Services Limited (Public body)
What is being bought13 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionProvision of planned and reactive intersite liquid sludge tankering, planned and reactive intersite raw sludge cake transfer, and onsite tankering services such as wet well cleaning, tank cleaning, tank emptying, jetting, lagoon cleaning, hazardous waste disposal, chemical disposal, and emergency incident response including street works.
Other services include General waste collection and disposal, planned and reactive grit and screenings collection and disposal, fly tipping & hazardous waste collection and disposal, reactive response to and management of pollution events etc.
Additionally, the marketing, sale, transport and, disposal of digested sewage sludge cake (Biosolids) is included.
Elements of the services are required 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Southern Water has sites across Sussex, Hampshire, Kent and the Isle of Wight.
CPV: Cesspool or septic tank emptying services · Containers for waste material · Non-hazardous refuse and waste treatment and disposal services · Radioactive-, toxic-, medical- and hazardous waste services · Refuse and waste related services · Refuse skips · Refuse transport services · Safety fencing · Sewage disposal services · Sewage removal services · Sewage treatment services · Sewerage management services · +7 more
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 4 bids received · 9 suppliers appointed
Lots and requirements (13)Procurement structure
13 lots · no lot values published · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Planned and Reactive Tankering & Waste ServicesPlanned UK
Activities include Liquid waste management arising from water and wastewater operational processes such as:
-Planned Intersite Sludge Tankering- collection, transportation and disposal of Liquid waste between SW facilities, and where necessary to third party facilities
-Planned Non-Routine Tankering- Additional tankering requirements for scheduled works on a semi-regular basis e.g. wet well cleaning, sludge line jetting, tank cleans etc.
-Reactive tankering in the case of emergencies 24 hours per day, 365 days per year
-Other services: Use of Skips and Roros (e.g. for transport of dewatered sludge cake), General waste, Grit and Screenings (collection and transport), Fly tipping, hazardous waste collection and other activities related to the management of waste, e.g. traffic management, sandbags, welfare units, in response to pollution events
Note some of the above activities may be separated into a different lot at the time of the final tender pack release
Lot #2Digested Cake Biosolids OffsitePlanned UK
Activities conducted comprise of:
Planned haulage of up to 300,000 tonnes/yr of Biosolids and up to 10,000 tones/yr of water clarification sludges to suitable agricultural outlets
Marketing, sales, in-field operations (e.g. stockpiling, spreading, civilization, soil sampling, and onsite operations (e.g. container management)
Some services may have a reactive 24/7 requirement
Lot #3Novel Waste Disposal/BrokeragePlanned UK
Requirement for waste brokers or specialist waste disposers to manage the disposal of "novel wastes" arising from the water and wastewater treatment operation e.g. sewage waste mixed with petrochemicals, spent chemical containers, asbestos waste, out of specification sludge waste.
Lot #4Waste Ancillary ServicesPlanned UK
Southern Water may require ancillary services to support the deployment of tankers and for other core waste services.
These services are referenced in previous lots. It is to be determined whether any or all services in this lot will be combined with a previous lot at the time of the final tender pack release.
Service include: Use of Skips and Roros (e.g. for transport of cake), General waste, Grit and Screenings (collection and transport), Fly tipping, hazardous waste collection, and includes activities used to manage pollution events such as traffic management, sandbags, welfare units, lighting towers, portaloos, scaffolding, road sweepers etc.
Lot #58Cancelled South East
The Supplier will provide full sales, transport, and land recycling services for Biosolids and Water Clarification Sludges produced by Southern Water within operational regions on the UK mainland and the Isle of Wight.
Lot #69Cancelled South East
The activity predominantly involves the collection, transportation and disposal of grit, screenings and debris arising from wastewater treatment processes The Service Provider is responsible for the following activities on a planned and reactive (emergency) basis 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
Regional coverage - The supplier will be engaged across all Southern Water regions
Lot #71Awarded South East
Activities include Liquid waste management arising from water and wastewater operational processes such as:
-Planned Intersite Sludge Tankering- collection, transportation and disposal of Liquid waste between SW facilities, and where necessary to third party facilities
-Planned Non-Routine Tankering- Additional tankering requirements for scheduled works on a semi-regular basis e.g. wet well cleaning, sludge line jetting, tank cleans etc.
-Reactive tankering in the case of emergencies 24 hours per day, 365 days per year
-Other services: Use of Skips and Roros (e.g. for transport of dewatered sludge cake), General waste, Grit and Screenings (collection and transport), Fly tipping, hazardous waste collection and other activities related to the management of waste, e.g. traffic management, sandbags, welfare units, in response to pollution events
Lot #82Awarded South East
Activities include Liquid waste management arising from water and wastewater operational processes such as:
-Planned Intersite Sludge Tankering- collection, transportation and disposal of Liquid waste between SW facilities, and where necessary to third party facilities
-Planned Non-Routine Tankering- Additional tankering requirements for scheduled works on a semi-regular basis e.g. wet well cleaning, sludge line jetting, tank cleans etc.
-Reactive tankering in the case of emergencies 24 hours per day, 365 days per year
-Other services: Use of Skips and Roros (e.g. for transport of dewatered sludge cake), General waste, Grit and Screenings (collection and transport), Fly tipping, hazardous waste collection and other activities related to the management of waste, e.g. traffic management, sandbags, welfare units, in response to pollution events
Lot #93Awarded South East
Activities include Liquid waste management arising from water and wastewater operational processes such as:
-Planned Intersite Sludge Tankering- collection, transportation and disposal of Liquid waste between SW facilities, and where necessary to third party facilities
-Planned Non-Routine Tankering- Additional tankering requirements for scheduled works on a semi-regular basis e.g. wet well cleaning, sludge line jetting, tank cleans etc.
-Reactive tankering in the case of emergencies 24 hours per day, 365 days per year
-Other services: Use of Skips and Roros (e.g. for transport of dewatered sludge cake), General waste, Grit and Screenings (collection and transport), Fly tipping, hazardous waste collection and other activities related to the management of waste, e.g. traffic management, sandbags, welfare units, in response to pollution events
Lot #104Awarded South East
Southern Water may require ancillary services to support the deployment of tankers and for other core waste services.
These services are referenced in previous lots. It is to be determined whether any or all services in this lot will be combined with a previous lot at the time of the final tender pack release.
Service include: Use of Skips and Roros (e.g. for transport of cake), General waste, Grit and Screenings (collection and transport), Fly tipping, hazardous waste collection, and includes activities used to manage pollution events such as traffic management, sandbags, welfare units, lighting towers, portaloos, scaffolding, road sweepers etc.
Lot #115Awarded South East
Requirement for waste brokers or specialist waste disposers to manage the disposal of “specialist wastes" arising from the water and wastewater treatment operation.
Typical waste streams within the scope of this service brief include (non exhaustive list):
o Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)
o Petro-chemicals
o Oil contaminated sewage
o Spent gas canisters
o Spent chemical IBCs
o Asbestos waste
o Fly tipped waste
o Cold digested wastewater sludge
o Sewage grit and screenings, and gross solids
The supplier may be asked to provide transport services, however not before the disposal options have been assessed and approved by Southern Water planners
The Service Provider is responsible for the following activities on a planned and reactive (emergency) basis 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
Lot #126Awarded South East
The activity predominantly involves the collection, transportation and disposal of general waste arising from offices, sundry building work and business activities associated with the supply of water and treatment of wastewater. The Service Provider is responsible for the following activities on a planned basis.
The waste may derive from offices, building or demolition work, from excavations and from maintenance of Water Industry facilities.
The waste is mixed municipal waste, including paper and cardboard, glass, plastics, metals, wood and electrical and electronic equipment. The waste may contain pipes used for water supply or sewers, as well as waste from mess room facilities. The waste may also contain used protective clothing
Regional coverage - The supplier will be engaged across all Southern Water regions
Lot #137Awarded South East
The activity predominantly involves the collection and transportation of dewatered sludge cake from and between Southern Water sites, however, it may be necessary as part of the operation to dispose of some of the waste via third party outlets, for example landfill. The Service Provider is responsible for the following activities on a planned and reactive (emergency) basis 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
It is important to distinguish between raw sewage sludge cake being the topic of this annex, and digested sewage sludge cake. Digested sewage sludge cake is not in scope for this service brief and instead is covered in Lot 10
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (3)
- Technical: 50
- Commercial: 50
- price: 50
- Price carries 100 of 150 points: a 10% discount moves about 10 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- “prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 Jan 2024, 12:25 GMT
- Last source update
- 30 Apr 2025, 10:42 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-017866- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0433b6Find a Tender
Publisher note: Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information: This procurement exercise will be conducted on the BravoSolution e-procurement portal at: https://southernwater.bravosolution.co.uk/ Candidates wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific information through the portal as follows: i) Candidates should register on the BravoSolution e-procurement portal at: https://southernwater.bravosolution.co.uk/ ii) Once registered, candidates must express their interest as follows: a) login to the portal; b) select 'View current opportunities and notices'; c) access the listing related to this framework d) click on Express Interest button; iii) Once you have expressed interest, please complete the PQQ. You must then publish your reply using the publish button; iv) For any support in submitting your expression of interest please contact the eTendering help desk at. 0800 368 4850 or [email protected]
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
30 Apr 2024 → 30 Apr 2025 · 2 dates- Next notice expected30 Apr 2024, 00:00 BST
- Notice published30 Apr 2025, 10:42 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 30 Apr 2025- Status changed to complete30 Apr 2025, 10:42 BST
- Procurement method changed30 Apr 2025, 10:42 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast13 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 5 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £54,500,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- £187,000,000
- Status
- active
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- £2,000,000
- Status
- active
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- £12,500,000
- Status
- active
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- £49,000,000
- Status
- active
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- £12,500,000
- Status
- active
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- £145,500,000
- Status
- active
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- £73,000,000
- Status
- active
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
prj_4923_Strategic Waste Management
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2025
- Value
- £13,000,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 · 1 | 5bids | — | — | — |
| 8 · 2 | 5bids | — | — | — |
| 9 · 3 | 5bids | — | — | — |
| 10 · 4 | 6bids | — | — | — |
| 11 · 5 | 3bids | — | — | — |
| 12 · 6 | 2bids | — | — | — |
| 13 · 7 | 4bids | — | — | — |
| Whole notice | 4bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Southern Water Services LimitedReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
9 commercial parties on the notice- Asprey St John & Company Limited trading as EnvirovueFramework contractor
- Austin Contract Services Limited - ACSFramework contractor
- Biffa Waste Services LimitedFramework contractor
- Biomarsh Environmental LtdFramework contractor
- Cappagh Browne Utilities LimitedFramework contractor
- Countrystyle Recycling LimitedFramework contractor
- FGS Organics LimitedFramework contractor
- Lanes Group LimitedFramework contractor
- MTS Cleansing Services LimitedFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.