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Provision of research into organics treatment capacity in Scotland Reference

Open United Kingdom Research & development

Buyer Zero Waste Scotland Ltd

38 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€106,260
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 39 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

38 days from publication to deadline

Longer than usual

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, below the EU threshold) give a median of 26 days, half of them between 19 and 31 days, based on 2,182 notices of the last two years.

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Description

Zero Waste Scotland invites you to tender for the provision of services to assess the impact of the changes proposed to food waste collections through the draft statutory Code of Practice for household recycling in Scotland on organics treatment infrastructure in Scotland and consider opportunities for, and wider benefits of, creating further circularity in Scotland’s food economy. Please see documents on PCS-Tender The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 32905 The ITT code is itt_65878 For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 (SC Ref:837521) The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 32905. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 (SC Ref:845350)

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  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €106,260.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Research & development.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    38 days left, 27 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €54,747 and €313,321.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 11 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 232 awards for Research & development in United Kingdom.

This notice
€106,260
Median award
€116,685
Middle half of past awards
€54,747 to €313,321

The estimate sits inside the usual range.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

The buyer

Full buyer profile

Zero Waste Scotland Ltd

United Kingdom

notices in the register
11
awards
6
awarded in total
€310,277

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Research & development - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD 12 €30.8M Sep 2026
AtkinsRéalis Jacobs Joint Venture 8 €1.8M Oct 2026
Ove Arup 7 €1.9M Oct 2026
WSP UK LIMITED 6 €5.9M Sep 2026
Verian Group UK Limited 6 €5.0M Sep 2026

Based on 282 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

2 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 23% of the open notices in Research & development across Europe.

open now in Research & development
656
median open notice
€296,260

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Research & development

different companies won awards here
199
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
10%
buyers awarded contracts here
100

Based on 282 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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