Contracts Finder notice
Waste and Recycling Scheduling Routes
Authority: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe awarded contract for the rescheduling and delivery of waste and recycling collection services to meet the requirements of the Simpler Recycling reform (November 2024). The reform introduces mandatory separation of paper and card from other recyclable materials and requires the provision of communal waste and recycling collections across relevant properties.
Under the awarded contract, the supplier will implement a revised collection model that supports:
The separate collection of paper and card to ensure regulatory compliance,
Dedicated or integrated communal collection services, and
flexible collection arrangements capable of collecting sacks and containers on the same vehicle during the rounds.
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Buyer reference
- EPP0267
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Additional classifications 1: Reference
- 90700000
- Additional classifications 1: Scheme
- CPV
- Additional classifications 1: Description
- Environmental services
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- SS7 1TF
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision1 Oct 2025
- Contract starts7 Oct 2025
- Notice published21 Feb 2026
- Contract ends21 Apr 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- ESSEX COUNTY COUNCILContracting authority
- Identifier
- ESS · GB-LAE
Suppliers named on the notice
- Plan B Management Solutions LtdSupplier
- Identifier
- 05873377 · GB-COH
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- SME
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-f625a858-02d4-4210-9484-869ee99dd27c-2026-02-21T14:46:55Z
- Published
- 21 Feb 2026
- Latest update
- 21 Feb 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-f625a858-02d4-4210-9484-869ee99dd27c
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-f625a858-02d4-4210-9484-869ee99dd27c-1