Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Waste and Recycling Collection Services PA23GPAGST11
Authority: Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Authority (Police & fire)
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Authority are seeking a supplier to provide a fully managed waste collection and recycling service, including the provision, maintenance and replacement of suitable external waste receptacles, scheduled and ad hoc collections, transportation, treatment, recycling, recovery and lawful disposal of waste arising from MAWWFRS premises. The Contractor shall be responsible for ensuring that all services are delivered in accordance with applicable legislation, environmental regulations and the requirements of the specification.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Authority are seeking a supplier to provide a fully managed waste collection and recycling service, including the provision, maintenance and replacement of suitable external waste receptacles, scheduled and ad hoc collections, transportation, treatment, recycling, recovery and lawful disposal of waste arising from MAWWFRS premises.
The service shall include, but not be limited to:
- Collection and management of general non-recyclable waste.
- Separate collection of recyclable materials in accordance with current Welsh legislation.
- Provision of appropriate waste receptacles, including clear bilingual identification and signage.
- Scheduled waste collections in accordance with the agreed site collection schedule.
- Additional and emergency collections where required.
- Management of contamination and incorrectly segregated waste.
- Provision of waste transfer documentation and evidence of lawful disposal.
- Monitoring and reporting of waste quantities, recycling performance and disposal routes.
- Identification and implementation of opportunities to improve waste management efficiency and reduce costs.
- Provision of professional advice relating to waste legislation, sustainability and environmental best practice.
- Management and oversight of any approved subcontractors.
The Contractor shall be responsible for ensuring that all services are delivered in accordance with applicable legislation, environmental regulations and the requirements of the specification.
CPV: Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Authority buys Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental (CPV 90), and who usually turns up
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Authority’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: Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental (CPV 90) →
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 Wales (Cymru).
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 54 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 bid50% / 15%
2–329% / 44%
4–67% / 33%
7+14% / 9%
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 estimate14% / 53%
Within ±2%86% / 29%
Above estimate0% / 18%
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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 #1CPV 90Published estimate£850k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 90. The comparison uses that group.
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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 82 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–344%
4–633%
7+9%
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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. 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.
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
- 2 Nov 2026, 15:10 GMT
- Last source update
- 2 Nov 2026, 15:10 GMT
- Authority reference
PA23GPAGST11- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-103829- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0795c8Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Nov 2026 → 31 Mar 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published45h ago2 Nov 2026, 15:10 GMT
- Today4 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 8 days12 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
To inform open FTS tender, suppliers are invited to an online or in-person information event on Friday the 13th November 2026, 10.30 am - 11:30am, via Microsoft Teams, where representatives of Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Authority will outline the procurement and the tender submission process, as well as fielding questions from prospective bidders.
To register your place at the engagement event contact Liann Phillips - [email protected] by 5pm on 12th November 2026.
- Tender notice expectedin 21 days25 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 146 days31 Mar 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Nov 2026, 15:10 GMTUK2
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender