Official UK procurement notice
Site Waste Clearance - Bolton House Road
Authority: Wigan Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWigan Council are undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement to enable contractors to understand the requirements related to an urgent requirement to appoint a contractor to remove waste that has been illegally deposited at Bolton House Road, Bickershaw, Wigan WN2 4AB. This will require supplier to visit the site to understand the scope of the requirements. The quantity of waste Wigan Council expect to be removed is estimated to be in the region of around 4,000 tonnes. This was estimated following a LIDAR survey which calculated the volume of waste as 7978.21 metres cubed.
CPV: Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Wigan Council buys Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental (CPV 90), and who usually turns up
Wigan 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: Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental (CPV 90) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 38 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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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.
1 bid0% / 17%
2–344% / 28%
4–633% / 34%
7+22% / 22%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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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.
Below estimate29% / 37%
Within ±2%41% / 38%
Above estimate29% / 26%
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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.
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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 90Published estimate£750k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 90. The comparison uses that group.
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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 1,570 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–328%
4–634%
7+22%
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
- 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
- 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
- 1 Dec 2025, 15:17 GMT
- Last source update
- 1 Dec 2025, 15:17 GMT
- Authority reference
Site Waste Clearance - Bolton House Road- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-078566- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ec1fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
1 Dec 2025 → 1 Feb 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published331 days ago1 Dec 2025, 15:17 GMT
- Market engagement322 days ago9 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
Suppliers are invited to engage in preliminary market engagement to understand Wigan Council requirement for the contract to clear waste illegally deposited at Bolton House Road, Bickershaw, Wigan WN2 4AB. The quantity of waste Wigan Council expect to be removed is estimated to be in the region of around 4,000 tonnes. This is estimated following a LIDAR survey which calculated the volume of waste as 7978.21 metres cubed.
Supplier wishing to participate in this opportunity will be required to visit the site.
Any supplier wishing to attend the site visit will need to respond to Wigan council no later than Friday 5th December by emailing:p.davies@wigan.gov.uk
The sites visit will take place on the Tuesday, 9th December 2025 (Additional days may be necessary) depending on the number respondents.
Please note the site is under a closure order and has been categorised hostile following risk assessment. No one should visit the site without prior consent nor without the presence of a Wigan Council Officer (or the police).
The contractor will be responsible for all aspects of management, access, construction, security, health and safety, haulage/treatment and restoration. More information can is detailed in the attached consultation document. Suppliers are invited to comment on the proposed conditions of participation, outline specification and pricing schedule.
- Tender notice expected316 days ago15 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts269 days ago1 Feb 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published1 Dec 2025, 15:17 GMTUK2
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
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