Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 90 (Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services) in the last 12 months, in aggregate — by council, competition type and threshold level. Individual awards are on the filtered search and browse page.
Supplier identity is never aggregated on this page — a winning bidder's name is often a person's name, not a company's, so it follows the same registered-access rule as the browse page's supplier search.
Last 12 months
Since October 2025: 667 awards worth £2,863,039,410 combined.
Framework agreements can dominate a year's total: A large share of awarded value comes from framework agreements, whose published value is often the framework's ceiling — the maximum that can be drawn down over its full, often multi-year, lifetime — rather than money spent in the year it was awarded. Checked directly against real data: a single council's own largest year can be dominated by framework agreements alone. A single large framework can make one year look far larger than its neighbours without that reflecting actual annual spend.
Top councils by value
| Council | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Elmbridge | £526,947,718 | 1 |
| Nottingham | £50,120,000 | 6 |
| Newport | £33,901,704 | 1 |
| Winchester | £20,731,985 | 1 |
| Blackburn with Darwen | £9,360,000 | 2 |
| Reading | £8,636,031 | 1 |
| Belfast | £7,600,000 | 4 |
| Manchester | £5,597,168 | 1 |
| Portsmouth | £5,540,000 | 4 |
| Wolverhampton | £4,148,000 | 2 |
Based on the 8% of Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £2,003,527,978 | 498 |
| selective | £786,454,972 | 83 |
| direct | £72,147,970 | 67 |
| limited | £733,999 | 13 |
| Not recorded | £174,491 | 6 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Competitive flexible procedure | £1,509,108,427 | 169 |
| Open procedure | £1,253,885,545 | 367 |
| Direct award | £70,731,329 | 48 |
| Award under framework | £20,035,162 | 10 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £6,953,817 | 35 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £1,416,641 | 19 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £733,999 | 13 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £174,491 | 6 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £2,820,404,207 | 656 |
| goods | £42,635,203 | 11 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 65 of 555 contracts with a recorded bid count (12%) had only one bid. See these contracts → The single-bid-rate ranking shows a different figure for the same measure — it uses a fixed calendar year, not the trailing 12 months shown here.
Figures published by UK Find a Tender Service and Contracts Finder (OCDS award notices). Accessed 2026-10-18.