Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 4 Aug 2026, 15:13 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Emergency Response, Rescue Equipment and Associated Services 2

Authority: Connect2Framework for Umbrella Company Services to the Public Sector (Public body)

Framework agreementGoodsAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£200,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Framework period 4 yrsends 31 Jul 2031 · starts 1 Aug 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Procurement Services are looking to create a local and national framework for the provision of Emergency Response, Rescue Equipment and Associated services such as but not limited to water rescue equipment, rescue tools and equipment, working at height, medical response equipment, drones and emergency shelters. Your response will help us design a framework that meets the needs of suppliers and customers to improve the procurement experience across all areas in the public sector. Scope and LOT structure is still to be determined.

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:

www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-West-M… ↗

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/J5375D6Z64 ↗

CPV: Defibrillator · Life jackets · Rescue and emergency equipment · Rescue dinghies · Shelters · Stretchers

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
4 yrs from 1 Aug 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “Emergency Response, Rescue Equipment and Associated Services 2” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Connect2Framework for Umbrella Company Services to the Public Sector buys Firefighting, rescue and safety equipment (CPV 3511), and who usually turns up

Connect2Framework for Umbrella Company Services to the Public Sector’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Firefighting, rescue and safety equipment (CPV 3511) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bidWhat to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no supplier sizes published · market: CPV 3511 · UK-wide, n=22
—50%

No supplier sizes published for this authority.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: CPV 3511 · UK-wide, n=10
—20%

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in South East England.

How long to a decision?
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 13 decided notices · market: CPV 3511 · UK-wide, n=9
56 days61 days

Half of these awards were announced within 56 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 2 of 2 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3511 · UK-wide, n=15
2 of 213%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer36 lots with bid counts · all categories
6% had one bid
The market57 lots with bid counts · CPV 3511 · UK-wide
2% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid6% / 2%
Buyer: 2 of 36 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 57 lots with published bid counts.
2–314% / 30%
Buyer: 5 of 36 lots with published bid counts. Market: 17 of 57 lots with published bid counts.
4–631% / 26%
Buyer: 11 of 36 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 57 lots with published bid counts.
7+50% / 42%
Buyer: 18 of 36 lots with published bid counts. Market: 24 of 57 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.

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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Our matching links this notice to “Supply of Emergency Response, Rescue Equipment and Associated Services” of this authority, but none of the 4 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.

Lot #1CPV 351148 monthsPublished estimate£200m
Expected competition
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How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 57 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet2% single-bid risk
Past bids on 57 similar lots
1 bid2%
1 of 57 similar past lots received 1 bid (2%).
2–330%
17 of 57 similar past lots received 2–3 (30%).
4–626%
15 of 57 similar past lots received 4–6 (26%).
7+42%
24 of 57 similar past lots received 7+ (42%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 6 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Water Rescue Systems LimitedEarlier contractSupply of Emergency Response, Rescue Equipment and Associated Servicesnotice published Jan 2024Water Rescue Equipment—Matched as the earlier contract
Reliance Medical LtdEarlier contractSupply of Emergency Response, Rescue Equipment and Associated Servicesnotice published Jan 2024Medical Response Equipment including defibrillators—Matched as the earlier contract
Data Southern Enterprises Limited T/A DS MedicalEarlier contractSupply of Emergency Response, Rescue Equipment and Associated Servicesnotice published Jan 2024Medical Response Equipment including defibrillators—Matched as the earlier contract
Beechwood Equipment LtdEarlier contractSupply of Emergency Response, Rescue Equipment and Associated Servicesnotice published Jan 2024Drones and Thermal Imaging Equipment—Matched as the earlier contract
Terberg DTS (UK) LtdEarlier contractSupply of Emergency Response, Rescue Equipment and Associated Servicesnotice published Jan 2024Cutting Equipment and Tools—Matched as the earlier contract

Who could compete for this lot?
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Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

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.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • 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.

What this replaces
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

83% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (83% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Supply of Emergency Response, Rescue Equipment and Associated Services, winner not published; no contract end date published.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
4 Aug 2026, 15:13 BST
Last source update
4 Aug 2026, 15:13 BST
Authority reference
Y27004
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-073799
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
DefibrillatorLife jacketsRescue and emergency equipmentRescue dinghiesSheltersStretchers
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06db84 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

4 Aug 2026 → 1 Aug 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published78 days ago
    4 Aug 2026, 15:13 BST
  2. Market engagement62 days ago
    19 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST

    The purpose of this engagement is to:

    Understand market capability and capacity

    Inform the development of the specification

    Create an objective pricing mechanism

    Explore innovative solutions

    Identify potential risks and delivery models

    Suppliers and Customers are invited to participate in the following activities:

    Online Questionnaire via delta portal tender box and email to arrange 121 meetings on

    teams.

    This is not a call for competition at this stage, it is to explore what is needed in the market

    place and how best to design the framework to assist public sector spending to offer best

    value and a route to market that is compliant.

  3. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 284 days
    1 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    4 Aug 2026, 15:13 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

Kent County Council trading as Procurement Services

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PYCX-4938-CCHM 1 Abbey Wood Road, West Malling, South East, ME19 4YTContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure