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Cambridge City Council

Pollution Mitigation for Hobson's Brook and Coldham's Common

Environment & WasteCPV 90713000
Value£100k
Deadline29 Jul 2026
Published8 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 8 Jul 20265 days leftCloses 29 Jul 2026
Who to contact
procurement@cambridge.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£100ktotal contract value
median £195k
this tender£0£5.0m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Environment & Waste band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 11,894 valued Environment & Waste tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The purpose of this commission is to provide a specialist lead role for pollution mitigation evidence and design for Hobson's Brook and Coldham's Common.

The commission must convert the available evidence into practical, defensible and measurable nature-based pollution mitigation designs capable of informing construction planning, consents, delivery sequencing and future performance validation.

The required outputs must support Cambridge City Council in moving from evidence and concept to delivery-ready technical design.

The appointed supplier must provide a clear evidence trail from monitoring data and pollutant load analysis through to treatment train sizing, design assumptions, hydraulic performance, pollutant removal expectations, risks, uncertainties and monitoring validation requirements.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The purpose of this commission is

The purpose of this commission is to provide a specialist lead role for pollution mitigation evidence and design for Hobson's Brook and Coldham's Common.

02

The commission must convert the available evidence

The commission must convert the available evidence into practical, defensible and measurable nature-based pollution mitigation designs capable of informing construction planning, consents, delivery sequencing and future performance validation.

03

The required outputs must support Cambridge City

The required outputs must support Cambridge City Council in moving from evidence and concept to delivery-ready technical design.

04

The appointed supplier must provide a clear

The appointed supplier must provide a clear evidence trail from monitoring data and pollutant load analysis through to treatment train sizing, design assumptions, hydraulic performance, pollutant removal expectations, risks, uncertainties and monitoring validation requirements.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidWaste carrier licence / environmental permits
  • Hold at bidISO 14001 (environmental)
  • Plan for deliveryTUPE (incumbent staff often transfer)
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b89c
Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
064392-2026
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