Official UK procurement notice
Household Waste Recycling Centre Garden Waste
Authority: Warwickshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWarwickshire County Council (the Council) is undertaking market engagement with Suppliers to gain a better understanding of the market available for the management of garden waste arising from Warwickshire Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs).
Information gathered from this market testing exercise will inform the procurement strategy and contract design including the specification, ensuring the Council achieves its objectives and best value for money.
The Council has nine HWRC's located across the County, receiving in excess of 1.5 million visits every year. Site usage is typically highest at weekends, bank holiday's, throughout holiday periods, including Easter, and during summer months.
Eight of the HWRC's are operated by the Council and there is currently one contract in place for the management of garden waste from these HWRC's. Judkins HWRC is not currently in scope.
The current contract includes the following services:
- Container provision
- Collection and haulage
- Composting
This contract expires on the 30th April 2027.
The Council does have access to composting outlets for garden waste under existing contracts and would be interested to hear from Suppliers who do not operate a composting site but could provide the other service elements listed.
CPV: Composting services · Containers for waste material · Refuse collection services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Warwickshire County Council buys Refuse disposal and treatment (CPV 9051), and who usually turns up
Warwickshire County Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Refuse disposal and treatment (CPV 9051) →
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.
Here, local means registered in West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside West Midlands.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 55 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 bid33% / 25%
2–30% / 31%
4–667% / 25%
7+0% / 19%
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 estimate50% / 33%
Within ±2%33% / 53%
Above estimate17% / 13%
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 9051Estimate 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 16 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid25%
2–331%
4–625%
7+19%
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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
- 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 May 2026, 15:59 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Oct 2026, 15:42 BST
- Authority reference
WAR-0094- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-093945- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a429Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 May 2026 → 1 May 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published149 days ago26 May 2026, 15:59 BST
- Tender notice expected51 days ago1 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Latest notice published17 days ago5 Oct 2026, 15:42 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 4 days26 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
The Council invites interested parties to complete the Market Testing Questionnaire that is available via In-Tend Sell2 Warwickshire Portal
sell2.in-tend.co.uk/midlands/home ↗
You should also submit any queries regarding this PME via the Correspondence function within the Warwickshire Portal.
Completed questionnaires should be uploaded to the Council’s e-tendering portal. The link to the portal is as follows: Sell2 (sell2.in-tend.co.uk/midlands/home ↗).
- Contract startsin 190 days1 May 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 26 May 2026- Pipeline notice published26 May 2026, 15:59 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Oct 2026, 15:42 BSTUK2
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender