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title: "Cornwall Council Waste Compositional Analysis 2025"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-055809"
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# Cornwall Council Waste Compositional Analysis 2025

Buyer: CORNWALL COUNCIL  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-055809

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## Summary

Cornwall Council, a sub-central government authority, has completed a procurement process for the "Cornwall Council Waste Compositional Analysis 2025" project. This project focuses on waste analysis services under the industry category of waste management, specifically targeting compositional analysis of various waste streams in Cornwall. The contract was awarded to KEO Europe Ltd and spans from 27 May 2025 to 31 March 2026. The procurement was carried out using a limited method, targeting below-threshold projects. This analysis is crucial due to recent and upcoming legislative changes affecting waste management, and it was conducted to assess the current composition of the waste streams managed by Cornwall Council.

This tender offers substantial business growth opportunities, especially for companies specialising in environmental and waste management services. The contract value of £92,106, as managed, demonstrates the scale of investment and commitment by the council to optimise waste processing and comply with legislative changes. Companies with expertise in waste analysis, environmental consultancy, and legislative compliance would find this contract particularly well-suited to their services. Given the project's scope, businesses with robust operational capacities and experience in public sector projects would be best positioned to compete in similar future tenders.

## Notice

Cornwall Council would like to carry out a compositional analysis study looking at multiple streams from the kerbside, HWRC, and litter bin services. Cornwall Council's kerbside collection service has undergone a significant service change since the last compositional analysis study was completed in 2023, moving from a weekly to fortnightly residual collection with a limit of 180 litres and introducing a new weekly food waste collection. This is expected to have a major influence on the composition of the waste remaining in the residual stream, and also the recycling stream. With a limit placed on householder's residual waste volume collected, customers are driven to reduce their waste and recycle more. Since 2023 there have been some major operational changes at the HWRC sites as well: - From August 2023, black bag sorting stations were introduced at six of our HWRCs: Truro, United Mines, Newquay, Helston, Falmouth and St Austell. - From 2 January 2024 DIY waste charges were removed under a free allowance limit and from this date could no longer be accepted at: Bodmin, Dudnance Lane, Helston, Tintagel and United Mines. - From 1 December 2024, upholstered furniture had to be separated from other streams and therefore could no longer be accepted at five sites: Bude, Dudnance Lane (Pool), Helston, Newquay and Truro. As well as changes that have happened since 2023, there are also upcoming changes in legislation. - Simpler Recycling will require the collection of cartons from March 2026 and flexible plastics and films from March 2027. - Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (pEPR) reporting is set to start this year. - Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) is currently set to come into force in 2027 and - Energy from Waste (EfW) facilities are set to join the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in 2028, with a two year monitoring and reporting period from 2026. These are major changes that are expected to dramatically impact the composition of both residual and recycling streams. This project will determine the currently composition of our Cornwall kerbside residual and plastics and cans containers, residual HWRC stream, and litter bins.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/036995-2025 |
| Notice type | UK7 - Contract Details Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Below threshold - limited competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 3 Jul 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 25 May 2025 |
| Contract period | 26 May 2025 - 31 Mar 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £92,106 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | CORNWALL COUNCIL |
| Locality | TRURO |
| Post town | Truro |
| Postcode | TR1 3AY |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLK3 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |
| ITL 3 | TLK30 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |
| Local authority | Cornwall |
| Electoral ward | Truro Boscawen & Redannick |
| Westminster constituency | Truro and Falmouth |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | KEO EUROPE |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 79723000 - Waste analysis services

## Release History

- 3 Jul 2025 at 08:29 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/036995-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/036995-2025
  3rd July 2025 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- http://www.cornwall.gov.uk
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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