Official UK procurement notice
GMCA1832 Supply of Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) and Associated Equipment and Services
Authority: Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGreater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service is required by law to ensure Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worn by operational fire fighters is fit for purpose, to enable them to perform their duties, and maintained to an appropriate standard in line with the Personal Protective Equipment Regulations 2022 (PPE Regulations) (as amended from time to time).
As such, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), on behalf of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS), seeks to procure a modern, interoperable Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) solution, including:
- Breathing apparatus sets
- Telemetry-based Entry Control Boards (ECB)
- Associated ancillary and support equipment
CPV: Breathing apparatus for firefighting
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Greater Manchester Combined Authority buys Firefighting, rescue and safety equipment (CPV 3511), and who usually turns up
Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Firefighting, rescue and safety equipment (CPV 3511) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in North West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 73 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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.
1 bid25% / 17%
2–330% / 37%
4–625% / 26%
7+21% / 20%
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.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate35% / 46%
Within ±2%61% / 42%
Above estimate3% / 13%
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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.
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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
Lot #1CPV 3511Published estimate£3.6m
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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 65 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–337%
4–626%
7+20%
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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.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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.
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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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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.
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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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- 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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 May 2026, 17:03 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Aug 2026, 12:28 BST
- Authority reference
GMCA1832- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-079879- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06962eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 May 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published168 days ago11 May 2026, 17:03 BST
- Latest notice published66 days ago21 Aug 2026, 12:28 BST
- Market engagement45 days ago11 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
GMCA and GMFRS will be conducting a market engagement event in relation to GMCA 1832, the procurement of Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus, including associated equipment and services.
Market engagement will take place on the working days between Monday 28th September to Friday 9th October (inclusive). Individual sessions will be held, for individual interested parties (Suppliers), over the course of two days each, within the time frame outlined above.
Suppliers are required to formally express their interest via the advert for this project within the Chest e-procurement portal (www.the-chest.org.uk ↗). The deadline for formally expressing interest is 12pm 11th September 2026.
Agendas will be provided to each Supplier individually following a confirmed expression of interest via the messaging function within the Chest e-procurement portal. The detailed agenda will be shared with Suppliers who have formally expressed an interest via the messaging service, after the expression of interest window closes - containing further details in line with the following overview:
Location: GMFRS Bury Training and Safety Centre
Time: (2 days) 10am-4pm
Agenda items to include: Introductions, Project Overview, GMFRS Team Presentations, Supplier Presentations including Practical Presentations and Demonstrations.
All correspondence must be sent via the Chest e-procurement portal.
- Tender notice expected7 days ago19 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 217 days1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 May 2026- Pipeline notice published11 May 2026, 17:03 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Aug 2026, 12:28 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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender