Official UK procurement notice
Lightning Protection Systems And Person Safety Systems
Authority: Anchor Hanover Group (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAnchor Hanover Group is England’s largest not-for-profit provider of specialist housing and care for those later in life. We manage 54,000 homes for both rent and sale to those aged 55 and over.
Lightning Protection Systems (LPS) and Person Safety Systems represent safety-critical assets across Anchor's portfolio. These systems help protect our buildings, residents, employees, contractors and visitors from risks associated with lightning strikes, the resulting fire risk, and working at height activities with fixed assets. Ensuring that these assets are appropriately identified, maintained, repaired and replaced forms an important part of Anchor's compliance and asset management responsibilities.
Based on current records, LPS are understood to be present at approximately 262 locations, while Person Safety Systems are identified at approximately 44 locations. Bidders shall note that asset information continues to be reviewed and validated, and should therefore be considered indicative.
The future scope of service is expected cover, but is not limited to, the following activities across LPS and Person Safety System assets:
- Inspection, testing and PPM (Planned Preventative Maintenance)
- Repair (emergency and responsive)
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- Replacement
- Installation
- Baseline survey, assessment and inclusion within service activities of undocumented assets
- Maintenance of an asset register
Anchor defines that an LPS includes the external lightning protection system and associated internal protection or interfaces:
- Air termination networks
- Conductors
- Down conductors
- Test joints
- Earth electrodes
- Bonding
- Separation distance arrangements
- Surge protection measures where applicable
- Warning labels
- Inspection pits
Person Safety Systems which are expected to fall under the contract's scope are:
- Single-point anchors, eyebolts, anchor posts and safety hooks
- Horizontal flexible lifelines, rigid rails and travelling anchor systems
- Fall restraint, fall arrest and rope access anchor systems
- Permanent fixed, freestanding and counterweighted guardrails and edge protection
- Permanent fixed ladders, ladder hoops/cages, gates, platforms and roof hatches
- Roof walkways, steps, treads, staging and designated access routes
- Roof light guards, mesh, covers and fragile-surface protection
- Demarcation systems, warning signs, labels and system operating information
- Associated structural fixings, baseplates, counterweights, brackets and terminations
CPV: Fencing, railing and safety equipment installation work · Installation of safety equipment · Lightning-conductor installation work · Lightning-protection works · Repair and maintenance services of building installations · Safety equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1PlannedRenewal
- Extensions
- Extension options published
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 6 Oct 2026, 17:13 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Oct 2026, 17:13 BST
- Authority reference
Project-00356- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078211
How it was run
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice publishedjust passed6 Oct 2026, 17:13 BST
- Market engagementin 14 days20 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Anchor is conducting Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) to support the delivery of an upcoming re-procurement of our Lightning Protection Systems and Person Safety Systems contract. The purpose of this exercise is to gather feedback from interested organisations operating in a relevant market to more…
gain insights into common market practices, relevant procurement considerations, market capability and innovative practices. Feedback captured during this PME is intended to help inform our procurement strategy, contract documentation, tender process and support the refinement of specifications as well as the scope of works. We therefore invite any interested parties to complete a written questionnaire via our E-Procurement Portal. The PME submission deadline is 17:00 hours on 20th October 2026. Please follow the link below to see our open opportunities and register your company's interest by completing our PME exercise our on our e-procurement portal - https://anchor.my.site.com/s/Welcome - Tender notice expectedin 98 days12 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts1 Jan 2028, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Oct 2026, 17:13 BSTUK2
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender