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Provision of Self Contained Breathing Apparatus

Buyer: NIFRS →

BuyerNIFRS
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
Value£5,000,000
Published14 Nov 2025

What is being bought

This Preliminary Market Engagement is being for the purposes of informing and engaging with potential service providers regarding the upcoming public competition for Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (referred to as BA) and associated equipment including BA Cylinders to be procured for Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) (the Buyer). NIFRS are seeking to replace their BA apparatus across all locations include their Learning and Development College. The current provision includes circa 650 BA Sets and circa 2100 BA Cylinders along with associated equipment. An initial estimate of 5 million pounds has been attribute to refreshing the equipment and support arrangements. EXPRESSION OF INTEREST Any Suppliers who are interested in taking part in the PME please contact Dawn Bradley (Procurement and Contracts Manager) on NIFRSProcurement@nifrs.org to express interest. EoI will close on Friday 21st November at 5pm (GMT)

Delivery location

UKN, GB

Categories

Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment 35000000Breathing apparatus 44611200

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2028 to 1 Apr 2038
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment, Breathing apparatusNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 35. The category anchor is Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment (35000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 351,1433.5 median · 42.7 average (320 of 1,143 with a bid count)3.9 average (349 of 1,143 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer2Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKN323 median · 11.6 average (10 of 32 with a bid count)2.3 average (12 of 32 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)1062 median · 2 average (1 of 106 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 106 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemYes
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
PME is due to take place in Jan 2026engagement22 Jan 2026scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05e1be
Latest release ID074084-2025
Latest release timestampFri Nov 14 2025 15:18:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categorygoods
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£5,000,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
14 Nov 2025planning074084-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
14 Nov 2025 · 074084-2025 · planning
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