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Published 24 Sept 2026, 12:17 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of Rescue Pumps & Type B Appliances

Authority: Avon Fire Authority (Police & fire)

Goods
Sectors: Transport Equipment & Vehicles (34) Delivery: UK
Published estimate£4,400,000≈ £2.2m / year · £5,280,000 inc. VAT
Tender notice expected 6 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsup to 3 yrs with extensions · starts 24 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Avon Fire & Rescue Service (AFRS) are looking to replace Four (4) x Rescue pumps and Six (6) x Type B appliances required over the next 2 years as part of our capital replacement program. AFRS will be utilising Lot1 Pumping appliances of the NFCC Emergency Response Vehicle Framework DS478-24.

CPV: Firefighting vehicles

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Lot 1PlannedRenewal 2 yrs
Contract period: 24 Mar 2027 — 24 Mar 2029 (2 yrs) · up to 3 yrs with extensionsDelivery: UK
Extensions
Extension options published
34144210 Firefighting vehicles

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
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
24 Sept 2026, 12:17 BST
Last source update
24 Sept 2026, 12:17 BST
Authority reference
AFRS06-2025-09
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Firefighting vehicles
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077969

How it was run

Submission deadline
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Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Planning notice published1 day ago
    24 Sept 2026, 12:17 BST
  2. Market engagementin 23 days
    17 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
    The purpose of this notice to advise of pre-market engagement that has been undertaken by Avon Fire & Rescue Service as well as to notify Suppliers of the upcoming opportunity to tender for provision of Four (4) x Rescue Pumps and six (6) Type B Appliances. Open Day An Open day was held in more…September 2025 and consisted of a walk round one of the current Rescue Pumps with a discussion around what AFRS are looking to change and improve, as well as understanding current supplier capacity, current risks to parts and materials, build times to help form our approach The Open Day was held at our Technical Centre, Nova Way Avonmouth, BS11 9DJ The Tender opportunity is estimated to be published in November 2026.
  3. Tender notice expectedin 43 days
    6 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 180 days
    24 Mar 2027, 00:00 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Sept 2026, 12:17 BSTUK2

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Avon Fire Authority

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PYYL-6479-DWHX Valley Road, Portishead, South West, BS20 8JJ [email protected]

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure