Official UK procurement notice
PLACE856ET Pre Market Engagement - Future Delivery of Waste Treatment, Disposal, Recycling and Infrastructure Services Across Derbyshire County and Derby City
Authority: Derbyshire County Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDerbyshire County Council (The Council) is the upper-tier Local Authority for the County of Derbyshire. The Council is responsible for the delivery of a range of mandatory statutory duties including key functions such as adult social care, education, children's safeguarding, public health, highways, waste management, libraries, and trading standards. Find more about our Council Plan, Ambitions, Values and Outcomes, and other key information here Working for Derbyshire. Our Council Plan 2024 to 2025 - Derbyshire County Council.
The Council along with the Waste Collection Authorities and Derby City Council (known forthwith as "the Councils") are seeking information from the market in relation to the future delivery of Waste Treatment, Disposal, Recycling and Infrastructure Services.
This Pre Market Engagement exercise (PME) is intended to gather insights from potential providers to help shape our future service model, inform the development of procurement documentation, and understand market capabilities and deliver value for money.
Participation in this process is entirely voluntary and non-binding. Responses will be used for information gathering only and will not form part of any future evaluation process.
The Aim of this Pre Market Engagement exercise is to explore:
- Innovative technology and delivery models
- Market capacity and readiness to deliver
- Risks, mitigations and dependencies
- Whole-life cost considerations
- Efficiencies and value for money
- Barriers to entry and Small Medium Enterprise participation
CPV: Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services · Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 7 Apr 2025, 10:43 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Jul 2025, 07:59 BST
- Authority reference
PLACE856ET- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-043665- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04fddfFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 Apr 2025 → 1 Oct 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published7 Apr 2025, 10:43 BST
- Latest notice published29 Jul 2025, 07:59 BST
- Market engagement363 days ago31 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT
Please follow the link to ProContract to express an interest in the Pre Market Engagement Exervcise and for the relevant PME documents and Prospectus for the project.
- Tender notice expected182 days ago30 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today30 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 335 days1 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 7 Apr 2025- Pipeline notice published7 Apr 2025, 10:43 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Jul 2025, 07:59 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
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Derby City CouncilContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
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