Kent & Medway Town Fire Authority: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Police & fire·South East England·Maidstone
Official UK PPONPCTX-8834-ZQLL
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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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 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 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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.
31 awarded tenders, 33 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
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
35 Security, fire-fighting, police22 procedures · 42%18 Clothing, footwear, bags12 procedures · 23%34 Transport equipment and products4 procedures · 8%45 Construction work4 procedures · 8%98 Other community, social and personal services4 procedures · 8%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances2 procedures · 4%63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel2 procedures · 4%71 Architectural, construction, engineering2 procedures · 4%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 · 52 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.
- Contract 79% (41 notices)
- Framework 21% (11 notices)
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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.
- Open 42% (22 notices)
- Route not published 33% (17 notices)
- Direct award 13% (7 notices)
- Limited / restricted 12% (6 notices)
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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 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 15 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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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 50 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 9 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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| FlamePro Global Ltd | 6 | 19.4% | 6 | 6 | 7 Apr 2026 |
| HUNTER APPAREL SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 6 | 19.4% | 6 | 6 | 7 Apr 2026 |
| Ballyclare Ltd | 5 | 16.1% | 5 | 5 | 7 Apr 2026 |
| Eagle Technical Product Limitied | 4 | 12.9% | 4 | 4 | 1 Apr 2026 |
| Bristol Uniforms LTD | 3 | 9.7% | 3 | 3 | 7 Apr 2026 |
| HG Mindworks Ltd | 2 | 6.5% | 2 | 2 | 14 Apr 2026 |
| Rosenbauer Limited | 2 | 6.5% | 2 | 2 | 1 Apr 2026 |
| Draeger Safety UK Limited | 2 | 6.5% | 2 | 2 | 30 Jun 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 26% of 31 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 33 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 award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
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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| Purchase of Fire Appliances | Emergency One (UK) Limited | 14 Apr 2026 | 5 yrs · up to 7.1 yrs | £20,000,000 ≈ £4.0m/yr |
| External Building, Minor Civil & Ground Works | Astral Limited | — | 4 yrs | £2,000,000 † ≈ £500k/yr |
| C25020 Electrical Reactive Repair and Installation Works | G M Monk Limited | — | 3 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £750,000 † ≈ £250k/yr |
| Supply of Panasonic Toughbooks CF-33 MK4 Tablets | SPECIALIST COMPUTER CENTRES PLC | — | — | £478,791 † |
| Fuel Management System | Octane Holding Group Ltd | 4 Jun 2026 | 5 yrs · up to 10.1 yrs | £450,000 ≈ £90k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 25 of 29 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Workload Modelling System- Annual Subscription for Maintenance and Support | CADCORP Ltd | 31 Jul 2027 | £68,052 |
| Appliance Graphics | Bluelite Graphics Ltd | 6 Aug 2027 | £30,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 53 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Skills for Justice - Market EngagementTraining programme services | Planning | 23 Sept 2026 | £10,000 |
| Fuel Management SystemFuels | Awarded / complete | 1 Sept 2026 | £500,000 |
| C26020 - Animal Rescue TrainingSafety training services | Awarded / complete | 28 Aug 2026 | £100,000 |
| NFCC National Firefighter PPE - Lot 6 (Footwear)Clothing made of coated or impregnated textile fabrics | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2026 | £71,348,301 |
| NFCC National Firefighter PPE - Lot 2 (Helmets)Clothing made of coated or impregnated textile fabrics | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2026 | £26,451,977 |
| NFCC National Firefighter PPE - Lot 4 (Structural Firefighting PPE)Clothing made of coated or impregnated textile fabrics | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2026 | £95,224,903 |
| C26019 - Fire Investigation TrainingFire-brigade and rescue services | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2026 | £217,000 |
| C26053 - Treadmill and Equipment Managed Service | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2026 | — |
| NFCC National Firefighter PPE - Lot 8 (Cleaning and Maintenance)Clothing made of coated or impregnated textile fabrics | Awarded / complete | 10 Aug 2026 | £2,294,401,495 |
| NFCC National Firefighter PPE - Lot 9 (Specialist Decontamination)Clothing made of coated or impregnated textile fabrics | Awarded / complete | 9 Aug 2026 | £134,373,146 |
| NFCC National Firefighter PPE - Lot 7 (Lightweight Firefighting PPE)Clothing made of coated or impregnated textile fabrics | Awarded / complete | 9 Aug 2026 | £75,604,485 |
| NFCC National Firefighter PPE - Lot 3 (Firehoods)Clothing made of coated or impregnated textile fabrics | Awarded / complete | 9 Aug 2026 | £17,875,489 |
| NFCC National Firefighter PPE - Lot 5 (Gloves)Clothing made of coated or impregnated textile fabrics | Awarded / complete | 9 Aug 2026 | £18,555,191 |
| NFCC National Firefighter PPE - Lot 1 (Managed Service)Clothing made of coated or impregnated textile fabrics | Awarded / complete | 9 Aug 2026 | £529,358,898 |
| C26042 - Smoke MachinesFirefighting equipment | Open | 7 Aug 2026 | £105,000 |
| C25062 - Ashford Live Fire Servicing, Maintenance and Repairs | Awarded / complete | 27 Jul 2026 | — |
| External Building, Minor Civil & Ground WorksDrainage and surface works | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2026 | £2,000,000 |
| C25020 Electrical Reactive Repair and Installation WorksElectrical installation work | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2026 | £750,000 |
| C26042 - Smoke Machines - Pre-Market Engagement NoticeFirefighting equipment | Planning | 1 Jul 2026 | £130,000 |
| Purchase of Fire AppliancesEmergency vehicles | Awarded / complete | 30 Jun 2026 | £20,000,000 |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£32m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 31 award records on 31 procedures (21 to a single canonical supplier, 10 multi-supplier). 10 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 7 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 25 of 29 published contracts carry a period end; 2 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (1 historical Find a Tender publication identifier)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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