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Nottingham City Council

CPU 8157 Procurement of Food Waste Reprocessing Contract

Environment & WasteCPV 90500000
Value£600k
Deadline1 Sept 2026
Published31 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 31 Jul 202631 days leftCloses 1 Sept 2026
Who to contact
procurement@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£600ktotal contract value
median £195k
this tender£0£5.0m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Environment & Waste band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 11,894 valued Environment & Waste tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Nottingham City Council seeks a contractor to receive, process, and treat source separated food waste arising from commercial sources but expected to expand to household/municipal sources at a later date, ensuring high environmental performance, robust legal compliance (including Animal By Products (ABP) where applicable), value for money, and verifiable diversion from landfill, aligned to the Waste Hierarchy.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidWaste carrier licence / environmental permits
  • Hold at bidISO 14001 (environmental)
  • Plan for deliveryTUPE (incumbent staff often transfer)
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d895
Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
072620-2026
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