Fire-prevention services

Tender description

Procurement for Housing (PfH) is a national procurement consortium dedicated to the social housing sector and supported by the National Housing Federation (NHF), Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and HouseMark. PfH wishes to establish a framework agreement across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to supply fire safety consultancy services over three lots: — fire risk assessments, — fire safety consultancy services, and — fire safety engineering consultancy services. The framework will be awarded for 4 years. A separate framework is being procured for Scotland. The provision of fire risk assessments across five regions: North of England, Midlands, Wales, South of England, Northern Ireland. Candidates may apply for one or all regions, but will be expected to be able to provide services to at least 80 % of the region they are applying for. Supplier will be required to be able to supply at least Type 1 and Type 3 Risk Assessments but PfH is also intends the framework to cover Type 2 and Type 4 Fire Risk Assessments also. PfH intends to award places on the framework to six (6) suppliers per region but reserves the right to award places to a greater or fewer number of suppliers depending on the bids received. The provision of fire safety consultancy services including, but not limited to: compliance reviews, review of policy and strategy, fire safety training, advice following fire risk assessments, advice on legislative requirements, project management services, support for fire risk management systems and other services as set out in the tender documentation. The framework will be awarded on a national basis. PfH intends to award places on the framework to six (6) suppliers but reserves the right to award places to a greater or fewer number of suppliers depending on the bids received. The provision of fire safety engineering consultancy services including, but not limited to: mechanical and electrical engineering services in respect of fire safety, design of sprinkler systems and fire suppression systems, fire safety and protection systems, project management, procurement services and other fire safety engineering services in new or existing buildings. The framework will be awarded on a national basis. PfH intends to award places on the framework to six (6) suppliers but reserves the right to award places to a greater or fewer number of suppliers depending on the bids received.