Waste management tenders and contracts in the UK
There are 57 open waste management tenders from public buyers in the UK. The soonest closes on 28 October 2026. 31 are open tenders you can bid for directly and 25 are frameworks or DPSs to join. Buyers include Hartpury College, Essex County Council, Lincolnshire County Council. Most are in the North West and the East Midlands.
Waste management tenders by region
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- Hartpury University & Hartpury College of Further Education - Total Waste Management Services, Hartpury College, the South West, £600,000, closes 28 October 2026
Hartpury College and University need a waste management contractor to collect, manage and dispose of their waste. They want a supplier who can help them reduce waste costs, make money from recyclable - Waste Service Mobile Plant, Essex County Council, the North East, £4,420,000, closes 29 October 2026
Essex County Council wants to hire heavy waste-handling machines (loading shovels and materials handlers) for their waste transfer stations and recycling centres across the county. They need the suppl - LCC - Provision of Dry Mixed Recycling (DMR) Services, Lincolnshire County Council, the East Midlands, £7,800,000, closes 30 October 2026
Lincolnshire County Council is looking for a company to collect, transport, process and sell dry mixed recycling (DMR) waste from council waste transfer stations across Lincolnshire. The contract runs - MBC-1620 Green Waste and Street Sweepings Haulage, Melton Borough Council, the East Midlands, £138,240, closes 30 October 2026
Melton Borough Council is looking for a waste haulage contractor to transport green waste and street sweepings collected across their area to disposal facilities managed by Leicestershire County Counc - Waste Transfer Station, London Borough of Lewisham, London, £1,100,000, closes 30 October 2026
Lewisham Council is looking for an organisation to run a waste transfer station (a facility where waste is collected, sorted, and transferred). This is a two-lot tender with initial terms of 2 years ( - FHQ Archive Upgrade, Extension & Relocation of Waste Storage., The Police & Crime Commissioner of North Wales, Wales, £2,000,000, closes 30 October 2026
North Wales Police is hiring a building contractor to relocate their recycling centre, extend and refurbish their archive storage facility at headquarters in Colwyn Bay. Work starts late 2026 or early - PLACE1211ET Replacement of Leachate Storage tanks at Victory Quarry Closed Landfill Site (Design + Build + Install), Derbyshire County Council, the East Midlands, £110,000, closes 2 November 2026
Derbyshire County Council wants a contractor to design, manufacture, supply and install two new leachate storage tanks at a closed landfill site. You'll also need to remove the old tanks and install p - Molendinar Park HA Common Area Cleaning 2027, Molendinar Park Housing Association Limited, Scotland, closes 2 November 2026
A Glasgow housing association needs a cleaning contractor to look after the common areas of 87 rental properties: stairs, landings, bin stores, entrances, pathways and windows. The contractor must sup - Provision of Kerbside Collections and Associated Services for the Islands of Eday, Sanday, Stronsay, Westray, North Ronaldsay, Papa Westray, Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre, Orkney Islands Council, Scotland, £1,068,006, closes 2 November 2026
Orkney Islands Council is looking for a waste collection contractor to provide weekly kerbside collections for domestic and commercial rubbish on nine small Scottish islands. The contract runs for 5 y - Design, Manufacture, Supply, Installation, Commissioning, Training and Maintenance of a Fully Automatic Cardboard Baling Solution, Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, Wales, £150,000, closes 2 November 2026
Blaenau Gwent Council wants to buy a fully automatic cardboard baling machine for their waste transfer station. The supplier must design, manufacture, deliver, install, commission, test it, train staf - ID624 - Major Works and Repairs Framework, SHROPSHIRE TOWNS AND RURAL HOUSING LIMITED, the West Midlands, £31,484,122, closes 3 November 2026
STAR Housing (a housing association in Shropshire) is setting up a framework of pre-approved contractors to handle property repairs, maintenance, refurbishment and improvements across their housing st - DNWP0016 - WAGR Enabling Works and Strip-out - Sellafield - A2R JV, Altrad AtkinsRealis Joint Venture (A2R JV), the North West, £10,000,000 – £20,000,000, closes 3 November 2026
The buyer wants a contractor to carry out enabling work and strip-out at the Windscale Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (WAGR) site at Sellafield, a shut-down nuclear facility. The work prepares the buildi - DBC (EE) Provision of a Waste Haulage Service for Dacorum Borough Council, Dacorum Borough Council, the East of England, £300,000, closes 5 November 2026
Dacorum Borough Council needs a contractor to collect and transport fly-tipping waste and commercial waste to disposal sites. This is a 3-year contract with one optional extension year, worth around £ - Highway Waste Services Framework_2026, Leicestershire County Council, the East Midlands, £4,000,000, closes 6 November 2026
Leicestershire County Council is setting up a waste removal service for their highway maintenance work. They want to appoint up to five companies across six different lots, covering bulk waste collect - Demolition of Former Beales Store (Mansfield Connect), Mansfield District Council, the East Midlands, £750,000, closes 6 November 2026
Mansfield District Council is hiring a single contractor to demolish the former Beales department store and adjacent Co-op building in Mansfield, including asbestos removal, site clearance, and making - Leighton Linslade Town Council Waste Contract, Leighton Linslade Town Council, the East of England, £180,000 – £270,000, closes 6 November 2026
Leighton Linslade Town Council wants to hire a waste management contractor to collect and manage waste across 5 sites in their area. The contract is worth £180,000–£270,000 and will run for a fixed pe - Barbican Renewal Programme - Construction logistics services, The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, London, £3,500,000, closes 9 November 2026
The City of London is hiring a construction logistics company to manage the day-to-day movement of materials, workers, and vehicles during a major refurbishment of the occupied Barbican Centre. This i - The Provision of Specialist Cleaning, Clearance and Disposal Services, South Lanarkshire Council, Scotland, £15,000,000, closes 9 November 2026
South Lanarkshire Council is looking for a specialist cleaning and clearance contractor to handle difficult cleaning jobs across the area, including trauma scenes, hoarding situations, and abandoned p - Tender to Establish a Framework for the Supply and Delivery of Various Containers at Household Recycling Centres, Ards and North Down Borough Council, Northern Ireland, £220,000, closes 9 November 2026
Ards and North Down Borough Council is looking for suppliers to provide and deliver various containers (such as recycling bins and waste containers) to their household recycling centres across the are - Services to support the National Rollout for establishing a waste management route for existing High Activity Sealed Sources (HASS) in the UK, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, £23,000,000, closes 10 November 2026
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is looking for a single specialist company to safely collect, dismantle, transport and process radioactive Caesium-137 sources from irradiator units across the UK - Provision of Compactor and Skip Inspection, Maintenance and Repair Services, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, Northern Ireland, £159,000, closes 10 November 2026
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council wants a contractor to regularly inspect, service and repair its waste compactors and skips at recycling centres and other council sites. The work i - DNWP0027- Lot 1B / WAGR B55 Demolition - Sellafield - A2R JV, Altrad AtkinsRealis Joint Venture (A2R JV), the North West, £2,500,000 – £5,000,000, closes 10 November 2026
A joint venture between Altrad and AtkinsRealis is hiring a contractor to demolish the B55 Office Complex and B55.2 Turbine Hall at Sellafield's WAGR site, taking them down to ground-floor slab level. - Waste Collection and Disposal Services (General, Recycling, Glass and Food Waste), Hampshire and isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, the South East, £1,865,000, closes 12 November 2026
An NHS hospital trust needs a single waste management company to collect and dispose of their general waste, recycling, food waste, and glass across their facilities. This is a contract worth approxim - SF₆ Recycle and Re-use Framework, NATIONAL GRID UK LIMITED, the North East, £1,110,000, closes 13 November 2026
National Grid wants a specialist company to manage the full life of its used SF₆ gas, an insulating gas used in high-voltage electrical equipment. This means collecting the gas from its sites, cleanin - Contract for the staffing and operation of Household Waste Recycling Centres within Lincolnshire., Lincolnshire County Council, the East Midlands, £10,165,000, closes 13 November 2026
Lincolnshire County Council wants to hire a contractor to run and staff 10 household waste recycling centres across the county. The contractor will be responsible for day-to-day operations, staffing, - Provision of West Ardnamurchan Refuse & Recycling Collections, Highland Council, Scotland, closes 16 November 2026
Highland Council is looking for a contractor to collect household refuse and recycling from properties in West Ardnamurchan, and to run the Kilchoan Household Waste Recycling Centre and Waste Transfer - CONTRACT HIRE WITH MAINTENANCE; AND MAINTENANCE ONLY; OF REFUSE COLLECTION VEHICLES, MECHANICAL SWEEPERS AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS WASTE COLLECTION VEHICLES, East Staffordshire Borough Council, the West Midlands, £13,500,000, closes 17 November 2026
East Staffordshire Borough Council wants to replace its refuse collection lorries, road sweepers and other waste vehicles, worth about £13.5 million. Lot 1 covers leasing the vehicles with full mainte - TENDER FOR THE COLLECTION AND RECYCLING OF WASTE TIMBER Ref: 2627 TNDR EP 004A, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Northern Ireland, £780,000, closes 17 November 2026
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council wants a company to take away waste timber from its recycling centres and process it so it can be recycled or recovered for energy. The work is split into two lots, - Scrap Metal, LAB (Lead Acid Batteries) and Abandoned Vehicles Collection, Transportation and Recycling, Leeds City Council, Yorkshire and the Humber, £1,372,000, closes 18 November 2026
Leeds City Council and Bradford Council are looking for companies to collect, transport and recycle scrap metal, lead acid batteries, vehicle alloys, and abandoned vehicles from their waste sites and - Repairs and Maintenance Service (RMS) - Utterby Side Garage Site Demolition (CRN/2026/289), Stoke-on-Trent City Council, the West Midlands, £100,000, closes 18 November 2026
Stoke-on-Trent City Council wants a single contractor to demolish 40 brick and concrete garages and carry out associated works at one site in Stoke-on-Trent. The council will act as the Principal Cont - DCC Wastewater Sludge Cake Haulage, Dwr Cymru Cyfyngedig, Wales, £6,000,000, closes 18 November 2026
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water is buying regular and one-off haulage of sludge cake, the dewatered solid left after sewage treatment. Work covers moving it between its own sites and treatment works, and taking - The Collection, Transportation and Recycling of Gypsum Containing Waste, Lancashire County Council, the North West, £2,394,000, closes 20 November 2026
Lancashire County Council wants to appoint one contractor for each of four areas of the county to collect gypsum-based waste (mainly plasterboard) from its Household Waste Recycling Centres, carry it - Provision of Treated Residual Waste Recovery Services - Thornton Waste Recovery Park, Lancashire County Council, the North West, £39,700,000, closes 24 November 2026
Lancashire County Council wants to hire a waste management company to collect, transport, and process up to 37,500 tonnes of treated residual waste per year from Thornton Waste Recovery Park. They are - Provision of Wood Waste Collection & Treatment Services 2026, Calderdale Norse Ltd, Yorkshire and the Humber, £1,750,000, closes 30 November 2026
Calderdale Norse, the council's waste service company, wants a contractor to collect and/or treat wood waste from the five Household Waste Recycling Centres across the borough. The contract is worth a - National Framework Agreement for Total Food Management, COUNTESS OF CHESTER HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, the North West, £45,000,000, closes 30 November 2026
The NHS Countess of Chester Hospital Trust is setting up a national framework, a pre-approved list of suppliers that other public sector bodies can buy from. It covers the whole food operation for hos - Tipping and Waste Disposal Framework Agreement - Ref 01044, Tai Tarian Ltd, Wales, £240,000, closes 1 December 2026
Tai Tarian Ltd is setting up a framework, which is a pre-approved list of suppliers that it can call on for work over a set period. The framework covers taking waste from its sites to licensed tipping - Third-Party Bulk Haulage of Non-Hazardous Waste, Yorwaste Ltd, Yorkshire and the Humber, £7,135,000, closes 3 December 2026
Yorwaste Ltd, a waste company owned by North Yorkshire Council and City of York Council, wants to hire hauliers to move non-hazardous household and commercial waste from its transfer stations in North - Gwelliannau i / Improvement works to the ‘Materials Recovery Facility’ (MRF) Ystâd Ddiwydiannol Cibyn, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, LL55 2BD, Cyngor Gwynedd, Wales, £1,200,000, closes 10 December 2026
Gwynedd Council is redesigning and upgrading a Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) in Caernarfon. They want a specialist contractor to design a completely new recycling line, supply and install new equ - Waste Composition Analysis 2026-2027, Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority, the North West, £250,000, closes 11 January 2027
Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority wants a specialist firm to study what is actually in the household rubbish collected across the Liverpool City Region, sorting and measuring samples to show which m - Environmental Services Contract, Bracknell Forest Borough Council, the South East, £185,000,000, closes 15 January 2027
Bracknell Forest Council is hiring a contractor to run waste and recycling collection, street cleaning, grounds maintenance, tree management, and town centre cleansing across the borough for 8 years s - Capital Works and Associated Services Dynamic Purchasing System, Procurement For Housing, Wales, £1 – £750,000,000, closes 31 August 2028
Procurement for Housing is setting up a Dynamic Purchasing System (a list of approved contractors they can call on) to deliver capital works projects for housing associations across England, Wales, an - Waste Management DPS, Thirteen Housing Group Ltd, the North East, closes 22 October 2028
Thirteen Housing Group, a large housing association in the North East, is setting up waste management services for their 35,000 properties. They're building a network of recycling centres and need sup - NNLC484D - Operations, Site Work and Facilities Management Dynamic Purchasing System, United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, the North West, closes 8 January 2029
The UK National Nuclear Laboratory is setting up a dynamic purchasing system (a pre-approved supplier list) for operations, site work, and facilities management across 8 different service areas. They' - Change to Period of Validity of existing Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for The Supply of Services Relating to the Treatment and Energy Recovery/Disposal of Residual Waste Arisings - Extension to 23 February 2029, arc21, Northern Ireland, £970,000,000, closes 23 February 2029
arc21 (a Northern Ireland waste management body) is extending a long-term Dynamic Purchasing System for waste treatment and energy recovery services. This is an extension notice, not a new tender: the - WCC - DPS for the provision of Waste Material Services, Warwickshire County Council, the West Midlands, closes 23 February 2029
Warwickshire County Council needs waste material services to handle segregated waste streams from their facilities across the county. They're looking for suppliers to manage hazardous waste (like batt - Facilities Management and Workplace Services DPS, The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service, £750,000,000, closes 23 February 2029
The UK government is setting up a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for facilities management and workplace services across public sector organisations. This is an open framework where government bodies - Facilities Management & Workplace Services DPS, Crown Commercial Service, the North West, £2,000,000,000, closes 23 February 2029
The UK government is setting up a dynamic purchasing system (DPS), essentially an approved supplier list, for facilities management and workplace services across all public sector organisations. Suppl - YPO - 000879 FM Services - Building in Use Support Services, YPO, Yorkshire and the Humber, £500,000,000, closes 23 February 2029
YPO is setting up an open list of approved suppliers for buildings that need support services like cleaning, security, catering, and waste management. This is a long-term arrangement (until February 2 - Health Physics 3 DPS Qualification, Magnox Ltd, the South West, £107,000,000, closes 31 March 2029
Magnox Ltd and partner nuclear/waste management organisations are setting up a long-term supplier list (dynamic purchasing system) to hire health physics professionals. They need radiation protection - Waste Management Services, Procurement Assist Limited c/o Integrated Facilities Management Bolton Ltd (iFM Bolton), the North West, £75,000,000, closes 31 May 2029
The government is setting up a 60-month approved supplier list (Dynamic Purchasing System) for waste management services across the NHS, councils, housing providers, and other public sector organisati - Skip Hire, Procurement Assist Limited c/o Integrated Facilities Management Bolton Ltd (iFM Bolton), £75,000,000, closes 31 May 2029
Procurement Assist is looking for skip hire companies to join a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) that will run until May 2029. Selected suppliers will provide skip delivery, collection, and waste dispo - Bromford Contractor Works and Services Dynamic Purchasing System, Bromford Housing - e-Tendering System, the West Midlands, closes 30 November 2029
Bromford Housing (a housing association) is setting up a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), essentially a pre-approved list of contractors, to handle maintenance and repair work on their social housing - Bromford Contractor Works and Services Dynamic Purchasing System, Bromford Housing Group, the South West, £62,500,000, closes 30 November 2029
Bromford Housing Group is setting up a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to find contractors for repairs and maintenance work on social housing across their regions. They are recruiting suppliers across - London and Quadrant Housing Trust - Skips (Waste Management) Dynamic Purchasing System(DPS), L&Q Group, London, closes 17 November 2030
London and Quadrant Housing Trust is setting up a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), an ongoing list of approved skip and waste management suppliers. They need skip suppliers who can provide waste manag - Waste Management DPS, NHS London Procurement Partnership (Hosted by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS FT), London, £2,000,000,000, closes 18 November 2031
NHS London is setting up a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to buy waste management services for hospitals and public sector organisations across England and the UK. They need suppliers to collect, tra - Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Material Waste Reception Services in Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire County Council, the East Midlands, £20,000,000, closes 17 November 2032
Lincolnshire County Council is setting up a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to handle waste reception and treatment across the county. They need suppliers to receive and process 10 different types of - Household Waste Site Recycling Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), Leeds City Council, Yorkshire and the Humber, £252,000,000, closes 31 March 2036
Leeds City Council is setting up a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to buy recycling and waste management services for household waste sites across the city. This is a large-scale, long-term arrangemen
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