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Highland Council

Provision of Food Waste Haulage Services

Environment & WasteCPV 90500000
Value£975,000
Deadline19 Oct 2026
Published18 Sept 2026
RegionNationwide

£975,000 — stated in the notice

Timeline
Published 18 Sept 202629 days leftCloses 19 Oct 2026
Who to contact
iain.auld@highland.gov.uk
+44 1467530600

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
£975ktotal contract value
median £195k
this tender£0£5.0m

This is a large award for Environment & Waste — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 11,894 valued Environment & Waste tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Highland Council has published 14 notices across all categories, and 50% of its awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

Haulage of Food Waste from Longman Waste Transfer Station to Treatment facility.

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-077568
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
088668-2026
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