Kent Fire & Rescue Service: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Fire-and-rescue-authority·Police & fire·South East England·Maidstone
Find a Tender organisation id153795Websitekent.fire-uk.org ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
18 awarded tenders, 20 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting3 procedures · 25%71 Architectural, construction, engineering2 procedures · 17%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 17%31 Electrical machinery1 procedures · 8%37 Musical instruments, sport, games1 procedures · 8%45 Construction work1 procedures · 8%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 8%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 8%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 12 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract100%(12 notices)
12 of 12 notices are Contract (100%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Limited / restricted92%(11 notices)
11 of 12 notices are Limited / restricted (92%).Open8%(1 notices)
1 of 12 notices are Open (8%).
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 1 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 12 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| AVISON YOUNG (UK) LIMITED | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| DLA Piper LLP | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Arthur J. Gallagher (UK) Limited | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| MCBAINS LTD | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Powermain Limited | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Fitness Warehouse Ltd T/A Gym Gear | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| BETTER GROUP LIMITED | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| MILLS AND REEVE | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 17% of 18 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 20 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| C24076 The Provision, Servicing and Maintenance of UPS and Generators | Powermain Limited | — | — | £674,000 † |
| Procurement Legal Service | DLA Piper LLP | — | — | £600,000 † |
| Drainage Services | Metro Rod Ltd | — | — | £310,000 † |
| Extension of Control System Contract - Interim Arrangement for CAD Transition | Sopra Steria Limited | — | — | £267,582 † |
| C26031 - On Call Gym Equipment | Fitness Warehouse Ltd T/A Gym Gear | — | — | £107,271 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 27 of 27 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| C26031 - On Call Gym EquipmentGymnasium equipment | Awarded / complete | 18 Aug 2026 | — |
| Specialist Legal SupportLegal services | Awarded / complete | 21 May 2026 | — |
| C26035 - On Call ConsultationResearch and development consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 19 May 2026 | — |
| Insurance Broker and AdvisorInsurance services | Awarded / complete | 13 Mar 2026 | — |
| Procurement Legal ServiceLegal services | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2026 | — |
| C23065 - HR Legal Support (Retainer)Legal services | Awarded / complete | 19 Feb 2026 | — |
| C26006 - Business RatesConstruction consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 22 Jan 2026 | — |
| C25052 - Information Architect ConsultancySystems and technical consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 2 Dec 2025 | — |
| C24083 - Consultancy for SustainabilityInfrastructure works consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 25 Nov 2025 | — |
| C24076 The Provision, Servicing and Maintenance of UPS and GeneratorsEmergency power systems | Awarded / complete | 15 Jul 2025 | — |
| Extension of Control System Contract - Interim Arrangement for CAD TransitionIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 8 Jul 2025 | — |
| NFCC National Fire Fighter PPEOccupational clothing | Planned | 7 Jan 2025 | — |
| Drainage ServicesDrainage works | Awarded / complete | 4 Nov 2024 | — |
| C24021 Purchase of Utility Task Vehicles and Firefighting Skid UnitsEmergency vehicles | Awarded / complete | 26 Jul 2024 | — |
| C23047 Incident CommandEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 22 Jul 2024 | — |
| C20065 Staff Rostering / Work Force Planning SystemIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 24 May 2024 | — |
| ASSET TAGGING & SOFTWARE FOR OPERATIONAL EQUIPMENT ASSET MANAGEMENTIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 23 May 2024 | £350,000 |
| NFCC PPE Conference - May 13th - 14th 2024Clothing | Planned | 15 Apr 2024 | — |
| Network Fire Service Partnership (NFSP) Joint Control WAN ProjectIT services: consulting | Planned | 8 Apr 2024 | — |
| NFCC PPE and Clothing Committee Conference – SAVE THE DATE – 18th May 2023Clothing | Planned | 23 Mar 2023 | — |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 3 of 20 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.