Refuse Bag Tenders and Contracts

Search live procurement portals for refuse sack, bin bag and waste bag notices, or work earlier: on Stotles you can see which councils are approaching a framework renewal and read the specification documents behind a call-off before it reaches tender. Most refuse bag buying sits inside a wider waste and recycling framework, so a council's framework position is often as useful a signal as a fresh notice.

Mostly through council and regional waste frameworks, with individual purchases going out as call-offs for a specific bag type, colour or council area rather than a fresh open competition each time. Larger multi-lot cleaning and hygiene frameworks often bundle refuse sacks alongside other consumables, while some councils tender bin bags or caddy liners as a standalone supply contract.

283 of the 578 refuse bag notices tracked to date have reached award. The rest are a mix of closed competitions and pre-tender activity, reflecting how much of this buying happens through framework renewals rather than one-off open tenders.

CPV 19640000 (Polythene waste and refuse sacks and bags) is the code most notices in this category carry, alongside the broader 18930000 (Sacks and bags). Both are specific enough to be useful research markers, but the keyword filter still does the real work: plenty of on-intent notices, especially multi-lot cleaning frameworks, carry a general cleaning-products code instead.