Life Safety Fire Risk Assessments

River Clyde Homes (RCH) are seeking to employ a suitably experienced and competent company to carry out comprehensive Life Safety Fire Risk Assessments (LSFRA) to properties and spaces across our portfolio. The work and output reports will include the following requirements:

Carry out a comprehensive on-site survey of all buildings listed in the pricing schedule (Appendix D). Such will also comment on positions of which includes multi-storey domestic flats, sheltered housing complexes and commercial premises, including but not limited to fire stopping, fire doors, life safety systems and fire safety management. Plant rooms refuse chutes & bin stores, communal areas, boiler rooms, lift rooms and loft spaces and accessible voids must be surveyed as part of the assessment. A representative sample of the flats within both the multi-storey flats and sheltered housing complexes must also be surveyed.

The Fire Risk Assessments will include the following:

-Non-destructive inspection of the common parts of the buildings and a representative sample of the flats.

• Completion of a competent fire risk assessment template. whilst it is noted that PAS79-2 has been withdrawn from use, the principles of the template would be accepted and where relevant the redacted paragraphs that dealt with the evacuation of vulnerable people, the assessor should utilise their professional skill and judgement to ensure that fire safety for disabled people is adequately addressed, or use alternative and approved document
• Consideration of the external materials of the building (Note this is not a request for an assessment in line with PAS 9980:2022)
• Consideration of compartmentation between common areas and the flats, including but not limited to fire doors, fire stopping, etc.
• Inspection of service risers on all floors in high rises and sheltered housing complexes such as dry risers, electrical risers, heating associated risers.

Inspection above a sample of readily accessible demountable false ceilings if present.

• Comprehensive assessment report to include the significant findings, issues identified, and actions required

Plus, the following in a 5% sample of flats within each multi-storey building and sheltered housing complex:

-Consideration of compartmentation between flats

-Consideration of the fire resistance of doors between rooms

-Consideration of the means of escape from the flat

-Consideration of the means of fire detection in the flat Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.