Waste Management Contracts and Tenders

Waste management covers refuse collection, disposal and recycling services: kerbside collection rounds, household waste recycling centres, and specialist waste streams like hazardous, clinical and confidential waste, alongside recycling of materials such as glass, textiles and food waste.

Stotles brings together waste management tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Waste vehicles, caddies and bins are often called off from frameworks such as ESPO's, and councils publish collection and treatment contracts on Find a Tender.

Waste tenders are scored on collection and treatment capacity, recycling and landfill diversion performance, environmental compliance, vehicle fleet and price. Councils let large collection and treatment contracts over long terms, while smaller waste streams such as clinical or confidential waste are tendered on their own.

Waste contractors must hold a waste carrier registration and the environmental permits for the sites they use, and hazardous and clinical waste brings extra consignment rules. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

NEPO runs a framework for heavy goods and specialist vehicles, including waste skips, containers and bins. District and borough councils call off from it for refuse and food waste collection vehicles and for kerbside food waste caddies.

Councils and joint waste authorities run the largest collection and disposal contracts, often through shared or regional arrangements. NHS trusts, universities, housing associations and other public bodies also run their own waste and recycling contracts across their estates.

Read waste strategies, joint municipal waste plans, collection and disposal contract expiry dates and preliminary market engagement notices, which show waste management work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

90500000 (Refuse and waste related services) is the broadest code and covers most waste management notices. 90514000 (Refuse recycling services) is the next most common, covering recycling-specific contracts.