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Devon County Council

Textile Waste Recycling Contract

Clothing & TextilesCPV 19620000
Value£100k
Deadline11 Sept 2026
Published27 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 27 Aug 202614 days leftCloses 11 Sept 2026
Who to contact
Thomas Dubberley
thomas.dubberley@devon.gov.uk
+44 1392383000

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

Suppliers can access the business opportunity via Supplying the South West Procurement portal at https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk. Register your expression of interest to the advert and then automatic access will be provided to the competition documentation, terms and conditions and any supporting information. This information can be downloaded for completion. Your submission can be started on the same system/page where you downloaded the documentation, where you can then upload your completed competition documentation. The authority does not accept submission from any other method.

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£100ktotal contract value
median £200k
this tender£0£6.8m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Leather, Textile & Plastic Materials band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 282 valued Leather, Textile & Plastic Materials tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

As a Waste Disposal Authority (WDA) DCC is responsible for the disposal of waste that the District Councils of Devon collect, known as Local Authority Collected Waste (LACW).

DCC works in partnership with all 8 District Councils in Devon as well as the unitary authority of Torbay.

The partnership, known as DASWC (The Devon Authorities Strategic Waste Committee), consists of representatives at both officer and councillor level from all Devon District Councils and Torbay Council.

The role of the committee is to promote recycling across the county, and to fund small projects by the pooling of funding.

It also co-ordinates joint county wide contracts for paper, glass and textiles and thereby allowing each authority to achieve a better deal through economy of scale.

The current contract for the processing of the Local Authorities Collected textile waste will expire and therefore will require re-tendering.

This contract has been generating an income to DASWC members from the sale of the waste material.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

As a Waste Disposal Authority (WDA) DCC

As a Waste Disposal Authority (WDA) DCC is responsible for the disposal of waste that the District Councils of Devon collect, known as Local Authority Collected Waste (LACW).

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

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

  • 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
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
081704-2026
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