Closed tender

Stoke-on-Trent Sustainability Park Energy Recovery Facility - Design, Build and Operate

Details

Value
£1,100,000,000
Topic
Waste incinerators
Published
6 March 2026
Submission
15 April 2026

Tender description

Stoke-on-Trent City Council (the Authority) seeks to procure a replacement Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) in Hanford, Stoke-on-Trent. The Authority intends to procure a new ERF with a capacity of 230,000-290,000 tonnes per annum on an 80% Council / 20% private sector ownership basis. The procurement encompasses Design and Build (D&B) and a 25-year Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contract. The Authority will submit a planning application in due course for the future Facility. Key requirements: • Design and build of a new ERF with moving grate combustion technology (or equivalent) and advanced flue-gas treatment systems • Integration of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) technology to deliver low-carbon heat to the city's District Heat Network to supply Local Sector anchor loads. • Heat to be delivered to the ERF site boundary for onward distribution by the Heat Network Provider • The facility must be Carbon Capture Ready and aligned with the Authority's Net Zero 2050 strategy • Full 25-year operations and maintenance service post-commissioning, including planned and reactive maintenance, lifecycle asset replacement, environmental monitoring and community education services

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published6 March 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date15 April 2026

About the buyer

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a local authority, and its Category Management team runs procurement from the Civic Centre. Contract opportunities are listed on the council's own tender-search portal and on the government's Contracts Finder service. Pro-Contract, the Supply Stoke and Staffordshire portal, hosts contract opportunities shared across Staffordshire councils. A Commercial Pipeline gives suppliers advance notice of upcoming contracts before they are formally advertised. Every tendering procedure follows the council's own Procurement Code alongside the Procurement Act 2023. An awarded contracts directory publishes the outcome of every past tender for suppliers to review.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's contract awards have been in construction work, architectural and engineering services and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 42320000 · Waste incinerators
  • 45252300 · Refuse-incineration plant construction work
  • 71314000 · Energy and related services

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