Kent Fire & Rescue Service: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Fire-and-rescue-authorityPolice & fireSouth East EnglandMaidstone

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.

Notices, last 12 months9+200% vs prior 12 months (3)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Top-3 supplier share17%of 18 awarded procedures · 20 suppliers
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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.

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£2.3mnet · on 11 of 11 published values · top 5 = 85%
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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 buy
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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

How they buy
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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

Commercial tool
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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%).
Procedure route
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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%).
Typical bids per lot
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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.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3indicative · n=10% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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.

Last 24 months.

01 of 12 notices amended

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
AVISON YOUNG (UK) LIMITED15.6%11—
DLA Piper LLP15.6%11—
Arthur J. Gallagher (UK) Limited15.6%11—
MCBAINS LTD15.6%11—
Powermain Limited15.6%11—
Fitness Warehouse Ltd T/A Gym Gear15.6%11—
BETTER GROUP LIMITED15.6%11—
MILLS AND REEVE15.6%11—

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.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£2.3mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 11 of 11 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 85%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£105k middle valuerobust · n=11Middle half £52k–£289k.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
C24076 The Provision, Servicing and Maintenance of UPS and GeneratorsPowermain Limited——£674,000 †
Procurement Legal ServiceDLA Piper LLP——£600,000 †
Drainage ServicesMetro Rod Ltd——£310,000 †
Extension of Control System Contract - Interim Arrangement for CAD TransitionSopra Steria Limited——£267,582 †
C26031 - On Call Gym EquipmentFitness 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

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Kent Fire and Rescue Supplier Engagement SessionsAdministrationPlanned4 Jan 2023—
C20011 - Supply and Repair of LaddersFramework3 lotsEmergency and security equipmentOpen24 Nov 2022—
VEAT NOTICE for C16022 National Workwear FrameworkFrameworkcentral purchasing bodyClothingAwarded / complete26 Jul 2022—
C19070 - Digital Experience PlatformIT services: consultingAwarded / complete11 Oct 2021—
C20065 Staff Rostering / Work Force Planning SystemData servicesPlanned29 Sept 2021—
C16068 - Specialist PPE DPS LOT 9 Generic PPEDPSOccupational clothingPlanned9 Aug 2021—
C18068 - Provision of Specialist Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)Frameworkcentral purchasing body8 lotsClothingOpen17 Mar 2021£98,453,000

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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.