Waste Service Mobile Plant
Details
- Buyer
- Essex County Council
- Value
- £4,420,000
- Topic
- Lifting and handling equipment and parts
- Published
- 2 October 2026
- Submission
- 27 October 2026in 3 weeks
- Source
- uk:find_a_tender
Tender description
Essex is a large county with almost 1.5 million residents generating approximately 700,000 tonnes of local authority collected waste per annum. As the statutory Waste Disposal Authority for Essex, Essex County Council (the Authority) is responsible for providing a range of infrastructure and arrangements for the management of waste. The Authority operate 21 Recycling Centres for Household Waste (RCHW) and 5 Waste Transfer Stations (WTS), and work closely with the 12 borough, city and district councils who are the Waste Collection Authorities (WCA) within the county of Essex. Brief Overview of the Requirement: The Authority requires a number of machines to operate their WTSs and RCHWs. This tender is to procure hire, including repair and maintenance, of the following machines lotted as follows: Lot 1: 4 Loading Shovels (20 Tonne) to be used at the Waste Transfer Stations. Lot 2: 3 Materials Handlers (20 Tonne) to be used at the Waste Transfer Stations. Lot 3: 12 Materials Handlers (16 Tonne) to be used at the RCHWs.
Timeline
- Completed: Tender published2 October 2026Current notice
- Next: Submission date27 October 2026in 3 weeks
About the buyer
Essex County Council is a local authority that procures through three in-house teams, Corporate, Place and People. Larger opportunities are advertised through Open, the council's own tendering and contract management platform. Smaller and lower-value contract notices instead appear on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. The Place team commissions highways, waste, energy and transport work, including a dedicated Dynamic Purchasing System for bidders. Construction projects separately run through the Essex Construction Framework, a route for regional contractors. The People team commissions education, social care, adult support and public health services across the county.
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 Essex County Council's contract awards have been in IT services, construction work and business services.
Relevant CPV codes
- 42400000 · Lifting and handling equipment and parts
- 43000000 · Machinery for mining, quarrying, construction equipment
- 50000000 · Repair and maintenance services
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