Blue Light Tenders and Contracts

BlueLight Commercial is the national commercial organisation for UK policing, set up to run collaborative framework agreements on behalf of individual forces, fire and rescue services and ambulance trusts. Notices badged BLC, such as BLC0339 for drug testing on arrest or BLC0169 for alcohol breath testing equipment, are its own tenders. Most other blue light activity is a force calling off one of its frameworks rather than running an open competition of its own.

Two ways in. Watch BlueLight Commercial's own tenders and dynamic purchasing systems as they open, or approach individual forces directly once you are on a relevant framework. On Stotles you can see which frameworks are live and when they're due to retender, then build a bid from there.

BLC0339 (Drug Testing on Arrest), BLC0169 (Alcohol Breath Testing Equipment), BLC0222 (National Firearms Licensing Management System), BLC0125 (Body Worn Video), and BLC0201 (Cyber Security Services) are among the live and recent framework agreements observed in this data.

Blue light procurement maps to CPV codes 34144200 (Vehicles for the emergency services), 35811200 (Police uniforms), and 48000000 (Software package and information systems), reflecting the fleet, uniform and software needs of frontline police, fire and ambulance services.

Not quite. Blue light is a general term for the emergency services: police, fire and ambulance. BlueLight Commercial is a specific organisation that buys on their behalf. In practice the two overlap heavily here: most notices matching "blue light" or "bluelight" name BlueLight Commercial as the framework owner or list one of its BLC-numbered agreements, rather than being a broader open-market blue light tender.