Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 6 Jul 2026, 14:58 BST

Official UK procurement notice

SCC - Operational Disposal Services Contract

Authority: Surrey County Council (Local council)·On behalf of: KPMG LLP

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 20 yrsends 1 Oct 2049 · starts 1 Oct 2029

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This Contract will comprise:

  • The operation of:

o 14 Community Recycling Centres (CRC)

o Five Waste Transfer Stations (WTS), all of which are co-located with CRCs

  • The Design, Build, Finance and Operation (DBFO) of:

o One WTS at Doman Road, Camberley

o One WTS and CRC at Slyfield Industrial Estate, Guildford

  • Offtake of all materials excluding:

o Residual 'black bag' waste

o Dry mixed recycling (DMR)

o Food waste

o Green waste

  • Haulage of all material

CPV: Refuse and waste related services · Waste disposal site construction work · Waste transfer station

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Surrey County Council buys Refuse and waste related services (CPV 9050), and who usually turns up

Surrey County Council’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) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerSurrey County Council · all categories
The marketRefuse and waste related services (CPV 9050) · South East England
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2,392 of 3,956 known-size awards · market: CPV 9050 · South East England, n=57
60%19%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 South East England.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 523 of 3,063 known-location awards · market: CPV 9050 · South East England, n=70
17%74%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 decided notices · market: CPV 9050 · South East England, n=20
65 days44 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 65 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 53 of 4,016 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 9050 · South East England, n=59
1%39%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer2,971 lots with bid counts · all categories
1% had one bid
The market46 lots with bid counts · CPV 9050 · South East England
39% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid1% / 39%
Buyer: 16 of 2,971 lots with published bid counts. Market: 18 of 46 lots with published bid counts.
2–34% / 46%
Buyer: 108 of 2,971 lots with published bid counts. Market: 21 of 46 lots with published bid counts.
4–69% / 13%
Buyer: 282 of 2,971 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 46 lots with published bid counts.
7+86% / 2%
Buyer: 2,565 of 2,971 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 46 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer13 lots with estimate and award · all categories
23% below estimate
The market28 lots with estimate and award · CPV 9050 · South East England
39% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate23% / 39%
Buyer: 3 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 28 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%23% / 32%
Buyer: 3 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 28 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate54% / 29%
Buyer: 7 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 28 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 4522240 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published

This lot is listed as CPV 4522. The table above uses the notice category.

Expected competition
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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 316 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet13% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 316 similar lots
1 bid13%
40 of 316 similar past lots received 1 bid (13%).
2–323%
72 of 316 similar past lots received 2–3 (23%).
4–628%
90 of 316 similar past lots received 4–6 (28%).
7+36%
114 of 316 similar past lots received 7+ (36%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

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.

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
6 Jul 2026, 14:58 BST
Last source update
6 Jul 2026, 14:58 BST
Authority reference
RFX1000894
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-063265
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Refuse and waste related servicesWaste disposal site construction workWaste transfer station
Delivery area
South East (UKJ25)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c475 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

6 Jul 2026 → 1 Oct 2029 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published112 days ago
    6 Jul 2026, 14:58 BST
  2. Market engagement87 days ago
    31 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    Surrey County Council is seeking to conduct preliminary market engagement before commencing the procurement for the following new Contract: Operational Disposal Services Contract.

    The Authority intends to undertake this consultation through written responses from the market, with an option to invite respondents to meetings with the Authority in September-October 2026 (as described in Section 5.0 of the Market Operators Briefing Note attached to the Opportunity published on the Proactis Supplier Network).

    Please complete the questionnaire response sheet attached to the Opportunity published on the Proactis Supplier Network and submit through the Proactis portal by 31st July at 12pm.

    Title: SCC - Operational Disposal Services Contract - Pre Market Engagement

    Reference: RFX1000894

    Link: supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login ↗

    We appreciate your time and effort in completing this engagement. Following the submission of responses, market operators may be invited to a 1:1 meeting with the Authority to discuss their responses further.

    If during the response time you have any questions or clarifications related to the questionnaire, please submit them via the portal and the procurement team will pick these up and respond as soon as possible.

  3. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  4. Contract starts
    1 Oct 2029, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    6 Jul 2026, 14:58 BST
    UK2

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

4 public bodies on the notice

Surrey County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PWRH-8974-TNBV Woodhatch Place, 11 Cockshot Hill, Reigate, South East, RH2 8EFContact email

Other public bodies

  • DLA PIPER UK LLPProcuring entityLegal Consultancy SupportGB-COH: OC307847GB-PPON: PMPT-8255-CHYG London, LondonContact email
  • KPMG LLPProcuring entityFinancial Consultancy SupportGB-COH: OC301540GB-PPON: PMGV-6254-LTTL London, LondonContact email
  • WSP UK LimitedProcuring entityTechnical Consultancy SupportGB-PPON: PXHY-9498-VZNJ London, LondonContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure