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Published 18 Aug 2025, 13:27 BST

Official UK procurement notice

CFRS Critical Mobilising System & Equipment Support SLA

Official notice

Authority: Cornwall Council (Local council)

GoodsBelow thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£145,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 20 Aug 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 30 Sept 2027 · up to 30 Sept 2028 with extensions · starts 1 Oct 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This 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 published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Oct 2025 – 30 Sept 2027 (2 yrs) · up to 30 Sept 2028 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Procedure 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)
Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lightingIT services: consulting, software development, Internet and supportSecurity, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0589c2 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

18 Aug 2025 → 1 Oct 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    18 Aug 2025, 13:27 BST
  2. Market engagement
    19 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.

  3. Tender notice expected
    20 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts395 days ago
    1 Oct 2025, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    18 Aug 2025, 13:27 BST
    UK2

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

Cornwall Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PYRH-9827-DWLP County Hall, Truro, South West, TR1 3AYContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure