Official UK procurement notice
Waste Offtakes Framework · UK public procurement notice
Authority: LANCASHIRE RENEWABLES LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLancashire Renewables Limited (LRL) was established for the operation and management of two central waste treatment facilities. LRL's key objectives are to receive, treat and transport contract waste (circa 400,000 tonnes p.a.) in accordance with the targets and service requirements set out in the Service Level Agreement between the company and its majority shareholder, Lancashire County Council (LCC).
Each of LRL's two waste treatment facilities is designed to process and handle various municipal waste types arranged and supplied by Lancashire County Council and Blackpool Council. The sites are located at Farington (PR26 6TB) and Thornton (FY7 8RY).
Following our processing, waste is sorted into approx. 10+ waste streams, where it is either baled or sent loose on to offtakers in the market for onward processing. These relationships have developed over time and organically, but work well. LRL is looking to formalise arrangements with suitable organisations, which will assist with visibility of our supply chain for audit and accountability.
Categories of waste (additional data about frequency and how it is prepared is provided in our Market Engagement Questionnaire) we currently provide as offtakes includes, but isn't limited to:
Ferrous Metals (Recovered)
Non-Ferrous Metals (Recovered)
Paper and Cardboard - Unprocessed
WEEE Waste
Ferrous Metals (Separately Collected)
Non-Ferrous Metals (Separately Collected)
HDPE Coloured Plastic
HDPE Natural Plastic
Mixed Grade Glass
Mixed Metals
Mixed Plastics
Source Separated Paper and Card - Baled
PET Clear Plastic
LRL may need or wish to introduce more waste streams for offtakes during the life of the arrangement, and so it will include provision for this. This may include provision for:
Digestate liquor (derived following an anaerobic digestion process), both non-PAS 110 and PAS 110 certified varieties
Comingled waste
Tetra Pak
MBT Non Processable Waste
Hazardous Waste
Process Water
Ammonium Sulphate
LRL are considering an Open Framework or Dynamic Market route to market, which may be up to 8 years in length. Contracts awarded under this may vary in length depending on waste type. If Open Framework or Dynamic Market are used, and a longer than 4 year term is selected, this may attract a proportionate increase in total value.
LRL are undertaking this PME, but the future contracts established, as well as ongoing contract management may be with either LRL or LCC (as the major shareholder).
CPV: Non-hazardous refuse and waste treatment and disposal services · Refuse recycling services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 4 yrs from 1 Sept 2026
The lotProcurement structure
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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).
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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).
- “Waste Offtakes Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How LANCASHIRE RENEWABLES LIMITED buys Refuse disposal and treatment (CPV 9051), and who usually turns up
LANCASHIRE RENEWABLES LIMITED’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Refuse disposal and treatment (CPV 9051) →
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North West England.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards were announced within 66 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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Lot #1CPV 9051Published estimate£20m
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Where the award price may land.
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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.
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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
- 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
- 13 Feb 2026, 11:59 GMT
- Last source update
- 20 Mar 2026, 15:26 GMT
- Authority reference
JS/LRL/25/018- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-025896- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0653c4Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
13 Feb 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published250 days ago13 Feb 2026, 11:59 GMT
- Latest notice published215 days ago20 Mar 2026, 15:26 GMT
- Market engagement205 days ago30 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST
Interested organisations are invited to:
- Register on LRL's e-tender portal (www.the-chest.org.uk ↗)
- Navigate to the market engagement project (under current opportunities - choose organisation 'Lancashire Renewables Limited' in the "narrow your results" filter box to bring up the project)
- Express interest in the opportunity, and complete the attached pre-market engagement questionnaire.
- Return your completed questionnaire on the portal in the first instance, or via email by the closing date of 30/03/2026.
- Tender notice expected163 days ago11 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts51 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 13 Feb 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Feb 2026, 11:59 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Mar 2026, 15:26 GMTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Close date for PME has been amended to account for potential visibility issues via the procurement portal.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender