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Food Waste Treatment Services Contract
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £8,000,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 5 Oct 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
Essex County Council (ECC) is planning to issue a tender in early January 2027 for a contract(s) relating to the anaerobic digestion treatment and disposal of food waste collected from households in the Essex area. The required treatment services must start on 1 April 2028. ECC currently manages approximately 55,000 tonnes per annum of separately collected household food waste.
The contracting authority is Essex County Council and any Successor Body meaning one or more entities which assumes any of the Council's functions (as applicable) as a result of Local Government Reform (LGR). Such successor body or bodies may be, without limitation, a local authority, a combined authority, a combined county authority, a strategic authority or any other status determined pursuant to the Devolution and LGR Legislation.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 90500000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
6 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 2 Jul 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 2 July 2025.
Release 036807-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 5 Feb 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 5 February 2026. Stated change: Food Waste Market Engagement Questions 2026 Introduction to market engagement: Essex County Council (ECC) is planning to issue a tender in late 2026 for a contract(s) relating to the anaerobic digestion treatment and disposal of food waste collected from households in the Essex area. The required treatment services must start on 1 April 2028. ECC manages approximately 50,000 tonnes per annum of separately collected household food waste. ECC's current food waste treatment contracts are due to expire on 31st March 2028 and therefore a treatment solution for this service is needed to replace it. ECC is considering letting a contract(s) for an initial 3 year term or longer (commencing on 1 April 2028) with the option to extend by agreement in any number of periods not exceeding a total of an additional 10 years. Purpose of market engagement: The purpose of this market engagement is to better understand the market's appetite and capability in respect of a number of commercial topics. The information gathered will assist the authority in preparing a tender pack that encourages and enables the market to propose its best value solutions for the residents of Essex. Format of market engagement: ECC has prepared a questionnaire, of which a copy can be requested via email from Waste.Procurement@essex.gov.uk; and which invites interested providers to complete and return to Waste.Procurement@essex.gov.uk. All information submitted will be treated in confidence and any references to the findings will be reported on a summary level on an anonymous basis. ECC will be running a series of 1-2-1 market engagement sessions online via a Teams meeting - to enable further exploration of the topics and to clarify any of the responses received. ECC intends for these 1-2-1 sessions to be up to two hours in length. ECC is keen to meet you so please express your interest in one of the sessions shown in the table within the document by emailing us at Waste.Procurement@essex.gov.uk.
Release 010729-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 20 Jul 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 20 July 2026. Stated change: Additional questionnaire and lotting information provided.
Release 068036-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 20 Jul 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 20 July 2026. The source does not state what changed.
Release 068145-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 5 Oct 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 5 October 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 093834-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 5 Oct 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 5 October 2026. Stated change: Updated the Market Engagement submission deadline date.
Release 093835-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-055798
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · planning
- Last verified
- Mon 12 Oct 2026, 08:13 BST
- Read at
- Fri 23 Oct 2026, 01:46 BST
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