Official UK procurement notice
Gas and Aerosol Disposal Services
Authority: Kent County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Kent County Council (KCC) wishes to engage with suppliers regarding capacity in the market to provide recycling and processing services for gas and aerosol waste deposited at all 19 Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) across the county.
The contract is required to cover the current processing services which involves the collection, sorting, storage, transporting, processing, recycling reuse and recovery of all gas bottles obtained from all 19 KCCs HWRCs.
The total tonnage of gas and aerosol waste processed for the 24/25 financial period was 208.65.
A wide range of gases and aerosols are deposited at the Authority's HWRCs. The most frequently deposited materials during the 2024/2025 period include:
•Aerosols
•Canisters
•Nitrous Oxide
•Hard Case Canisters
•Fire Extinguishers
•Disposable Helium
•MAPP substitutes (propylene, or with propane or isobutane)
•Gas Cylinders
Please note that this list is not exhaustive.
Providers must also be able to return canisters to the appropriate repatriation facilities where required.
The Authority seeks to engage a Provider for this contract capable of processing and disposing of all materials received.
Minimum Requirements
The supplier will be required to have in place:
•A waste processing facility with appropriate permitting and planning permissions.
•Provide the Authority with signage for the cages or containers including branding and hazard signage.
•The ability and capacity to collect as required ad-hoc waste from the Authority and waste collection Authorities within Kent.
•A facility which is able to manage the processing of all gas and aerosols.
•An appropriate method of weighing-in materials collected (preferably an electronic weighbridge) to provide the council with the appropriate management information (including weigh-loader transaction listings); and
•robust service contingency plans to ensure continuity of services in the event of plant failure, etc.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
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CPV: Non-hazardous refuse and waste treatment and disposal services · Refuse and waste related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Kent County Council buys Refuse and waste related services (CPV 9050), and who usually turns up
Kent 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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Half of these awards have an award date within 70 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid20% / 40%
2–340% / 47%
4–640% / 11%
7+0% / 2%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate38% / 41%
Within ±2%13% / 30%
Above estimate50% / 30%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 90Published estimate£300k
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1 bid17%
2–321%
4–634%
7+29%
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A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Albus Environmental LtdEarlier contract | SC23096 – Clinical Collection, Reception and Disposal (CCRD) Servicesnotice published Apr 2025 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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.
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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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Nov 2025, 12:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Nov 2025, 12:05 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-072749- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05de95Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Nov 2025 → 1 Jan 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published351 days ago11 Nov 2025, 12:05 GMT
- Market engagement333 days ago28 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Please register on the Kent Business Portal to access the Market Engagement Questionnaire.
The total contract value will depend on the contractual term selected and will be confirmed in any subsequent tender notice.
- Contract starts300 days ago1 Jan 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Nov 2025, 12:05 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
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- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender