Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 7 Oct 2026, 14:16 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Commercial waste and recycling

Authority: Wokingham Borough Council (Local council)

Services
Planned pipeline value£3,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 4 Jan 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 1 Aug 2030 · up to 1 Aug 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Aug 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Waste Collection and Recycling across multiple locations across the borough. Including Housing & multi-storey carpark.

CPV: Refuse collection services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrs
Contract period: 1 Aug 2027 – 1 Aug 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 1 Aug 2032 with extensions
Delivery: UK
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Wokingham Borough Council buys Refuse disposal and treatment (CPV 9051), and who usually turns up

Wokingham Borough 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 disposal and treatment (CPV 9051) →

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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 buyerWokingham Borough Council · all categories
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: 13 of 18 known-size awards · market: CPV 9051 · UK-wide, n=207
72%59%

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 8 known-location awards · market: CPV 9051 · UK-wide, n=226
88%64%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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: no decision dates published · market: CPV 9051 · UK-wide, n=63
—44 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 44 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 1 of 30 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 9051 · UK-wide, n=219
3%36%

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

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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 buyer8 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market182 lots with bid counts · CPV 9051 · UK-wide
34% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 34%
Buyer: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 61 of 182 lots with published bid counts.
2–338% / 45%
Buyer: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 82 of 182 lots with published bid counts.
4–650% / 19%
Buyer: 4 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 34 of 182 lots with published bid counts.
7+13% / 3%
Buyer: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 182 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with estimate and award, 5 needed · broad CPV 90
The market101 lots with estimate and award · CPV 9051 · UK-wide
39% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate39%
Market: 39 of 101 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%38%
Market: 38 of 101 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate24%
Market: 24 of 101 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 905136 monthsPublished estimate£3.0m
Expected competition
i

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 182 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet34% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 182 similar lots
1 bid34%
61 of 182 similar past lots received 1 bid (34%).
2–345%
82 of 182 similar past lots received 2–3 (45%).
4–619%
34 of 182 similar past lots received 4–6 (19%).
7+3%
5 of 182 similar past lots received 7+ (3%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £3.0m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
Unspecified in notice
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
7 Oct 2026, 14:16 BST
Last source update
7 Oct 2026, 14:16 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-094789
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Refuse collection services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0782ce Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

7 Oct 2026 → 1 Aug 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published20 days ago
    7 Oct 2026, 14:16 BST
  2. Today
    28 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 68 days
    4 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 276 days
    1 Aug 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    7 Oct 2026, 14:16 BST
    UK1

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

Wokingham Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PNTM-6852-HGRP Shute End, Wokingham, South East, RG40 1BNContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender