Official UK procurement notice
CFRS Critical Mobilising System & Equipment Support SLA
Authority: Cornwall Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis contract covers the provision of critical maintenance and out of hours support for the alerting and mobilising technologies across all of Cornwall’s 31 Fire Stations and 9x Remote Sites, including Fire HQ.? This includes bespoke fire equipment and technology that are critical to the fire service incident response management capability that ensures the right resources are mobilised as quickly as possible to the correct location.?To include:
- Fire Station – Alerting and mobilising equipment – hardware and software issues,
- GD92 / MG4 Principles (Emergency Communications Protocol)
- (Fire Service) Firecoder installation/swap-outs using appropriate configuration files.
- Power Supply Unit failures, testing and swap-outs
- (Fire Service) RPT1102 Transmitter Programming, testing and swap-outs
- 4g bearer alerting support, break/fix, e.g. Cradlepoints (IBR1700) faults/fixes
- Airwave Radio ‘Plug and Play’ across various SAN equipment. E.g. SAN J
- 70x Win11 Ruggedized Win11 Mobile Data Terminals used across the services vehicle fleet.
- Diagnostics and support for bespoke fire service risk management software that underpin the services incident operations. E.g. Airbus SafeCommand
- Provide triage support in collaboration with Critical Control for 1st and 2nd line diagnostics
- Coodinate PAT Testing of the alerting equipment across all 31 fire stations and 9 remote sites. Due to the nature of the work we need the suppliers to be local to Cornwall.
CPV: Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 18 Aug 2025, 13:27 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Aug 2025, 13:27 BST
- Authority reference
DN786622- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-049485- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0589c2Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
18 Aug 2025 → 1 Oct 2025 · 4 dates- Planning notice published18 Aug 2025, 13:27 BST
- Market engagement19 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
Cornwall Council is conducting a soft market assessment to gain an understanding of the potential level of interest for the provision of CFRS Critical Mobilising System & Equipment Support SLA.
It is intended that the responses supplied will enable the Council to develop a business proposal. Any such proposal would be subject to the development and approval of a business case, and, as such, this exercise implies no commercial commitment. This is not a formal tender document.
- Tender notice expected20 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts395 days ago1 Oct 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published18 Aug 2025, 13:27 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender