Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park Residual Waste Treatment Contract

Published facts

What the notice says

Buyer

Milton Keynes City Council

Published status

complete

Latest release reference

093419-2026

CPV codes

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) codes: 90500000

Published tags

award, contract

Latest record Bidwake loaded from this source

10 Oct 2026

Milton Keynes City Council (the ‘Authority’) contract for the provision of the operation and maintenance of Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park (MKWRP) (the ‘Contract’).The MKWRP is an innovative, operational residual waste recovery facility comprising three adjoined and interlinked technologies: mechanical treatment, dry anaerobic digestion and advance thermal treatment, capable of processing up to 132,000 tonnes per year and providing critical infrastructure to deliver the Authority’s statutory waste disposal functions.The service requires the appointed contractor to work in partnership and collaboration with the Authority to optimise the capacity, efficiency and overall performance of the MKWRP to achieve a design life up to at least 2042.

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Observed notice trail

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1. Award notice observed

   2 Oct 2026

   Latest variant observed by Bidwake on 3 Oct 2026.

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   Record references

   Release reference

   093419-2026

   Published tags

   award, contract

Awards and suppliers

Published award and contract facts

• Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park Residual Waste Treatment Contract

  Buyer: Milton Keynes City CouncilSupplier: SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd

  End date in notice

  Date not published

  Value shown in notice

  £313,710,755Value from the linked contract

  Official source

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  Source

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  Award or lot reference

  093419-2026-2024-279-1

Related evidence

Published terms and linked processes

• Options are statedLot 1

  Extension to the duration of the Contract: the initial term of the Contract is 10 years. The Authority reserves the right at its discretion to extend the term of the Contract for a further period of up to 5 years on notice.Anticipated Changes: The Authority reserves the right to introduce the following anticipated changes to the Services during the term of the Contract:Use of capital funding to support lifecycle replacement and improve MKWRP’s efficiency and capacity for processing material and generating electricity/heat, with the intention to produce additional revenues from the sale of such electricity/heat (including by way of connection to a City-wide district heating network);Use of the biological treatment facility (via dry anaerobic digestion) to process separated food and garden waste from households; The introduction of other municipal waste streams including (non-exhaustively) recyclatesUse of the mechanical treatment facility to process mixed plastic, cans and glass separately collected from households;Explore opportunities to improve extraction of fossil-based carbon through the mechanical treatment facility to mitigate the impact of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme;Explore initiatives to stabilise and reduce contract waste volumes;Expand the private wire arrangements at MKWRP to power operational fleet vehicles and neighbouring consumers;Investigate the potential employment of bespoke modular complementary technologies to offset post treatment disposal costs; andSupport future heat/electricity offtake models including private wire, synthetic, sleeved PPAs and heat offtake agreements, including the construction of an energy centre within or adjacent to the Site, such construction works to be competitively tendered.Further details of all options available are set out in the Contract

  Published 2 Oct 2026.Open supporting notice 093419-2026

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