Official UK procurement notice
The Provision of Services and/or Facilities to Support the Acceptance, Storage and Treatment of Organic Wastes, including Food and Garden Waste.
Authority: Leeds City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe provision of services and/or facilities to support the acceptance, storage and treatment of organic wastes, including food and garden waste. The scope of, delivery model, contractual arrangements and timescales are yet to be determined and remain subject to further analysis, options appraisal and market engagement. Indicative material streams will include, but are not limited to, the waste types listed below. The market will be kept informed as the Council’s strategy develops.
Garden waste materials which will be included will be: Grass cuttings; Hedge Clippings; Leaves; Dead house and bedding plants; Windfall Fruit; Weeds; Twigs and small branches (not more 7 cm thick).
Food waste materials which will be included will be: Dairy products (including eggshells); Breads, pastries, cakes; Cooked and uncooked food; Meat, fish and poultry (including bones); Out of date food; Pasta, rice and beans; Teabags and coffee grounds; Uneaten leftovers (including takeaways); Vegetables and Fruit (including peelings)
CPV: Refuse and waste related services · Refuse disposal and treatment · 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 Leeds City Council buys Refuse and waste related services (CPV 9050), and who usually turns up
Leeds City 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) →
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.
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 41 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 bid30% / 24%
2–344% / 49%
4–621% / 19%
7+5% / 8%
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 estimate34% / 44%
Within ±2%53% / 32%
Above estimate13% / 24%
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 90Published estimate£160m
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 1,563 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–328%
4–634%
7+22%
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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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- 15 May 2026, 12:04 BST
- Last source update
- 21 May 2026, 15:46 BST
- Authority reference
tender_330- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047282- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0699e2Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
15 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2029 · 5 dates- Planning notice published163 days ago15 May 2026, 12:04 BST
- Latest notice published157 days ago21 May 2026, 15:46 BST
- Market engagement135 days ago12 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Leeds City Council is looking into potential procurement options to put in place future contractual arrangements for suitably qualified and experienced organisations to deliver garden and food waste processing contract(s). This PME exercise is not a formal invitation to tender or a request for formal expressions of interest. The Council, as a contracting authority, is issuing this request for information only in order to assess the reaction of the market and thus make any potential procurement process more focused and efficient.
Interested parties should register and log into Leeds City Council's e-tendering portal in order to find out more and participate in this exercise; leedscitycouncil.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/esop/ogc-host/public… ↗. The preliminary market engagement document is available to download by searching tender_330.
The Council would like to gain information from the market regarding a number of issues related to the potential procurement exercise. You are therefore invited to consider the programme requirements detailed in the PME document and complete the questionnaire to give us your feedback on the proposed approach.
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 68 days1 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts1 Apr 2029, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 15 May 2026- Pipeline notice published15 May 2026, 12:04 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 May 2026, 15:46 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