Upcoming
Waste Service Mobile Plant
Essex County Council · Local authority
In brief
Essex County Council has announced plans to buy construction work. This is an early notice: there is nothing to bid on yet, but it tells you a tender may follow.
The notice does not state a value.
The contract runs for 5 years, starting 1 April 2027.
Built from the notice's own fields. Always check the official notice before you bid.
Can I win this?
What the notice says
Background:
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 has a requirement for a variety of plant machine vehicles across a variety of sites throughout the county, ECC is publishing a survey which is intended to enable Essex further develop it's upcoming tender.
We are asking suppliers to give us information on what proportion of their hiring price is repair and maintenance on the following machines:
20 tonne material handlers, 20 tonne loading shovels and 16/17 tonne material handlers.
The survey can be found here, it is a short survey that only asks for your details and what proportion of your hire price is repair and maintenance https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MQ4i0t1WG8
How to bid
- Read the full notice on Find a Tender, including any tender documents it links to.
- Register your organisation on the Central Digital Platform (through Find a Tender) if you have not already. Suppliers need to be registered to take part in procurements under the Procurement Act 2023.
- Follow the submission instructions in the notice; it does not name an e-tendering portal.
Timeline
- Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 075003-2026
About the buyer
Essex County CouncilLast 12 months
Procurements
73Awards
43Suppliers it has used most for construction
- Colchester Archaeological Trust Limited1 contract
- Gipping Construction Ltd1 contract
- KJR Contracts Limited1 contract
- Lot 2 - Believ Limited1 contract
- Qwello (UK) Ltd1 contract
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From notice 075003-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 6 August 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.