Official UK procurement notice
Fire Alarm Design, Installation, and Associated Project Management Services DPS
Authority: Scottish Government (Central government)
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe Scottish Government is looking to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Fire Alarm Design, Installation & Associated Project Management Services.
The DPS will be split into 2 Lots:
Lot 1: Fire Alarm Design & Installation
Lot 2: Associated Project Management Services
Please Note: The value of call off- contracts will range from Thousands to Millions however no form of volume guarantee has been granted by the authority and therefore no commitment of spend is guarenteed through the DPS.
- Recurrence: May 2031 if the tender is to be recurrent however this is not confirmed at this stage. The DPS may be extended on a yearly basis
CPV: Burglar and fire alarms · Construction project management services · Fire-alarm system installation work · Fire-alarm systems · Fire-detection systems · Project and design preparation, estimation of costs · Project management consultancy services · Project-management services other than for construction work · Supervision of project and documentation
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market (open)
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · no lot values publishedLot #1Fire Alarm Design and InstallationRenewal
Lot 1 of DPS will provide for works in accordance with BS 5839-1:2025 and all relevant Scottish fire safety legislation, standards, and guidance, including requirements under the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005, and applicable Scottish Building Standards.
Works may include the provision of new or enhanced fire detection and alarm systems comprising categories L1–L5, as identified through the Single Building Assessment (SBA).
Requirements may include temporary or permanent fire alarm solutions, modifications to existing systems, associated enabling works, certification, compliance documentation, integration with wider fire safety strategies or cladding remediation activities and maintenance.
Suppliers must be able demonstrate full compliance and provide certificates if applicable with the following if asked for at call off stage and/or within the SPD Example Section:
Fire Detection and Alarm System (FD&AS) Standards
BS 5839-1:2025 Fire detection and fire alarm systems for Buildings
BAFE SP203 1 certification (modules: Design, Installation, Commissioning)
Certification body must be UKAS accredited
Commissioning shall be conducted in accordance BSRIA Application Guides and CIBSE Commissioning Codes
Electrical Design & Installation (Mandatory)
BS 7671:2018+A2:2022, Requirements for Electrical Installations
BS 5839 1 interface requirements for fire alarm systems
Electrical installation certification (EIC / Minor Works as applicable)
Scottish Regulatory Compliance
Compliance with Scottish Building Regulations, including the relevant provisions of the Building Standards Technical Handbooks (Fire and Electrical sections)
Demonstrable understanding of:
Fire detection and alarm requirements for domestic and non‑domestic buildings, including system selection and coverage in accordance with risk
Applicable certification processes, including use of Approved Certifiers of Design and/or Construction where required under Scottish Building Regulations
Legal Competency
Confirmation that all works are delivered by “competent persons” under fire safety legislation
Understanding of duties under:
Fire (Scotland) Act
Health and Safety:
Personnel responsible for managing and delivering site based works must hold qualifications and training appropriate to their role, such as SMSTS, SSSTS, IOSH Managing Safely, CSCS/ECS cards or equivalent industry recognised qualifications.
Lot #2Associated Project Management ServicesRenewal
Lot 2 of the DPS will comprise of suitably qualified and experienced suppliers to provide project management and contract administration services associated with the delivery of fire detection and fire alarm systems in residential buildings affected by cladding related fire risk across Scotland.
Services may include:
Coordination of surveys, investigations and technical assessments
Preparation of specifications and procurement documentation
Tender and contract management
Coordination of contractors undertaking opening up, enabling and making good works associated with fire alarm installations
Coordination and submission of Building Warrants, approvals, or any other statutory permissions or consents required for the works
Resident and Factor liaison
Coordination of installation works in occupied buildings
Programme, cost and compliance monitoring
Oversight of commissioning, testing and certification
Coordination of handover documentation and project close out
Services will support delivery of works in accordance with BS 5839 and relevant Scottish fire safety legislation, standards and guidance. Projects may include temporary or permanent systems, upgrades to existing installations, and works integrated with wider fire safety or cladding remediation programmes.
Core Certification & Regulatory Compliance
If asked at call-off contract stage and/or DPS example stage suppliers must demonstrate full compliance and provide certificates if applicable with the following:
Relevant construction, engineering or building surveying qualification, such as a degree, HNC/HND, or equivalent in a related discipline (e.g. Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Architecture or similar)
Membership of a relevant professional body, such as:
RICS
IFE
CIOB
APM
ICE
CIBSE
RIBA/RIAS
Personnel responsible for managing and delivering site based works must hold qualifications and training appropriate to their role when asked for within the call off contract, such as SMSTS, SSSTS, IOSH Managing Safely, CSCS/ECS cards or equivalent industry recognised qualifications.
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- Economic & financial standing
It is a requirement of this DPS that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded:
Employers’ Liability Insurance: GBP 5 million
Public Liability Insurance: GPB 5 million
Professional Indemnity Insurance: GBP 5 million
Product liability insurance may be required for individual call-off contracts. Any such requirement will be specified at call-off stage and will be proportionate to the nature, scope and risk of the requirement.
Financial Assessment will be taken on a risk-based approach for each contract call-off under the DPS.
- Technical & professional ability
List and brief description of selection criteria:
It is a requirement of this DPS that applicants must have and be able to demonstrate previous experience for the lot(s) they are applying for. Lot descriptions are available within this contract notice at II.2 and example questions are available at Part 4C 2.2 & 2.3 via Public Contract Scotland Tender.
The Authority will have the right to request evidence that entry criteria is still valid at any point during the life of the Dynamic Purchasing
System with evidence to be provided via an updated SPD to the Authority within 5 working days of request being issued.
Applicants will be required to provide three different examples of your experience for each Lot that demonstrate that you have the relevant experience to deliver the services/supplies within the SPD in Public Contract Scotland Tender
Project Code: 32194
PQQ code: 6916
*Please note: Examples should be concise but generally in the 400 word range. Examples should be recent, within the last 5 years.
Any applicant that is subject to a mandatory exclusion ground will be rejected from admission to the Dynamic Purchasing System unless the Authority is satisfied, following consideration of any self-cleaning measures and supporting evidence provided by the applicant, that exclusion is not required in accordance with the applicable procurement legislation.
Mandatory Exclusion Questions sit within Part 3 of the SPD.
- “Fire Alarm Design, Installation, and Associated Project Management…” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Scottish Government runs Sound or visual signalling apparatus (CPV 3162) tenders for its clients, and who usually turns up
Scottish Government procures on behalf of other bodies; its record below covers every client it has tendered for, 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: Sound or visual signalling apparatus (CPV 3162) →
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Half of these awards were announced within 54 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid17% / 27%
2–339% / 7%
4–613% / 27%
7+30% / 40%
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Lot #1Fire Alarm Design and InstallationCPV 31625200Estimate not published
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1 bid12%
2–364%
4–611%
7+14%
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| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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ADT Fire & SecurityLarge | £12m39 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 5 live · £6.6m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=5 |
Rexel UK LimitedLarge | £1.4m24 awards in 36m · last this month | 2 live · £158k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 6% below n=1 |
| £765k2 awards in 36m · last 5 months ago | 1 live · £500k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| £8.3m20 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 6 live · £3.0m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 28% below n=7 | |
BLAZEQUEL LTDLarge | £77k2 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago | 2 live · £1.2m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
Lot #2Associated Project Management ServicesCPV 31625200Estimate not published
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1 bid13%
2–364%
4–610%
7+13%
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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ADT Fire & SecurityLarge | £12m39 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 5 live · £6.6m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=5 |
Rexel UK LimitedLarge | £1.4m24 awards in 36m · last this month | 2 live · £158k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 6% below n=1 |
| £8.3m20 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 6 live · £3.0m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 28% below n=7 | |
| £20k3 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago | 1 live · £20k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| £99k1 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs |
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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
Yes · May 2031 if the tender is to be recurrent however this is not confirmed at this stage.
The DPS may be extended on a yearly basis
- First published
- 2 Jul 2026, 11:48 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Jul 2026, 11:48 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-062180- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c23aFind a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Publisher note: The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this PQQ exercise. The Project code is 6916. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363 The Contracting Authority does not intend to include any community benefit requirements in this contract for the following reason: Will be considered at call-off stage (SC Ref:835892)
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via Public Contracts Scotland- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Admission period ends
- 27 Jun 2031, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 1800 days from the deadline
Timeline
2 Jul 2026 → 27 Jun 2031 · 3 dates- Notice published110 days ago2 Jul 2026, 11:48 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Invitations to tender expected27 Jun 2031, 00:00 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown27 Jun 2031, 12:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Edinburgh Sheriff CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.