Live register, refreshed 7 October 2026

Live fire safety tenders: 26 open across the UK

Every live fire alarm, extinguisher, passive fire, fire door, sprinkler and fire risk assessment tender on Find a Tender, with the deadline, the buyer, the value, the portal and whether it is reserved for local firms. Pulled from the official notices weekly, not typed from memory. The 4 frameworks on the list are the ones that decide access for four years.

Closing in the next 7 days

Canterbury City Council

Fire Remedials & Associated Works

Canterbury City Council wishes to select and appoint a suitable supplier for the provision of Fire Remedials & Associated Works and invites tenderers to submit a tender to meet the Council’s requirements. The Contract is anticipated to commence December 2026 and will continue for a period of 1 year (unless terminated early in accordance with the terms and co

Fire safety works and remediation

1 day left

9 October 2026

Value £1.2m

Portal

TRINITY HOUSE

CM132 - Fire Doors

The Authority is seeking to procure a suitably qualified and experienced contractor to undertake the supply and installation of fire doors at the Harwich Office and Buoy Yard.

Fire doors

1 day left

9 October 2026

Value £57k

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Maintenance of Life Critical Fire Alarm Systems and AFD Equipment

This ITT has been issued by NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership Procurement Services (hosted by the Velindre NHS Trust) “NWSSP” on behalf of Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB who shall enter into the Agreement. You are being invited to tender under the open procedure conducted in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023. The Procurement will result in the award of a s

Fire alarm and detection

4 days left

12 October 2026

Value £391k

Portal

Southern Housing

Southern Housing Fire Remedial Frameworks

Delivery of fire remedial works to properties owned and managed by Southern Housing. This opportunity comprises two frameworks (lots) with intended maximum duration of four years each, as follows: Lot 1 - Low Value Projects - Delivery of Projects of low value most suited to SMEs - estimated value 25,000,000.00 Framework GBP incl VAT, per annum - It is envisa

Fire safety works and remediation Framework

6 days left

14 October 2026

Value £200m, 2 lots

Portal

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Fire Servicing Tender

For the provision of servicing and maintenance of fire safety equipment, including fire suppression systems, fire extinguishers, fire alarm systems and fire detection equipment

Fire alarm and detectionExtinguishers and portable equipmentSprinklers and suppression

6 days left

14 October 2026

Value £89k

Portal

Closing in 8 to 30 days

Ports of Jersey

Fire Alarm & PAVA Maintenance Contract for Jersey Airport, Channel Island

Ports of Jersey (PoJ) is seeking planned and reactive maintenance, technical support and fault-response services for the Airport's fire detection, fire alarm and PAVA (Public Address/Voice Alarm) systems, comprising: • the legacy ADT fire alarm system, which remains in operational service across parts of the Airport • the new Gent fire alarm system, which is

Fire alarm and detection

8 days left

16 October 2026

Value £1

Portal

Falmouth Exeter Plus

Fire Safety Systems

Falmouth Exeter Plus (FXPlus) is looking to appoint a single contractor to carry out a range of Fire Safety Systems services to the University Campuses at Falmouth (Woodlane, Falmouth) and Penryn (Treliever Road, Penryn). The contract will be for 36 months with the option to extend for a further period of 2 x 12 months at the agreement of both parties.

Fire alarm and detection

8 days left

16 October 2026

Value £600k

Portal

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Sprinkler and Remedial Works

Based on the historic site of the Maudsley Hospital in Southeast London, The Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People PMCYP will transform our knowledge and understanding of young people’s mental health and reduce the time it takes to bring new treatments to patients. The proposed plans seek to create a transformative centre in which clinicians, s

Sprinklers and suppressionFire safety works and remediation

8 days left

16 October 2026

Value £400k

Portal

Trowbridge Town Council

Fire Alarms, Intruder Alarms & Access Control Testing, Maintenance and Monitoring Services

Trowbridge Town Council ("the Council") invites tenders from competent and qualified contractors for the provision of testing, inspection, planned preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance and monitoring of the following systems: Fire alarm systems Intruder alarm systems Monitoring of fire and intruder alarms Controlled access (fob/code entry) systems E

Fire alarm and detectionExtinguishers and portable equipmentFire risk assessment and consultancyEmergency lightingFire and security systems

8 days left

16 October 2026

Value Not stated

Falmouth Exeter Plus

Fire Safety Systems Maintenance Services

Falmouth Exeter Plus (FXPlus) is looking to appoint a single contractor to carry out a range of Active Fire Safety services to the University Campuses at Falmouth (Woodlane, Falmouth) and Penryn (Treliever Road, Penryn). The contract will be for 36 months with the option to extend for a further period of 2 x 12 months at the agreement of both parties.

Fire alarm and detection

8 days left

16 October 2026

Value Not stated

Portal

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Fire Stopping and Compartment Remedial Works (PRH site)

The fire stopping and compartmentation remedial works shall be undertaken by a FIRAS Accredited Contractor with demonstrable experience in the inspection, remediation, installation and certification of passive fire protection systems within occupied acute healthcare environments.

Passive fire and compartmentationFire safety works and remediation

8 days left

16 October 2026

Value £300k

Portal

University of Huddersfield

University of Huddersfield- Inspection & testing of emergency lighting systems

The scope of the work shall include the procurement, installation, co-ordination, site testing, commissioning, provision of record documentation, together with the whole of the labour and materials necessary to form a complete inspection. Because of the possibility of failure of the supply to the normal lighting occurring shortly after a period of testing, a

Emergency lighting

11 days left

19 October 2026

Value £125k

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority

Fire Alarm and Portable Extinguisher Maintenance

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (SYFRS) has a requirement to procure new Contractor arrangements to support the delivery of its Fire Engineering services, periodic maintenance services. The procurement exercise will establish a Contractor arrangement for the planned and responsive maintenance of fire detection and fire alarm systems across the SYFRS

Fire alarm and detectionExtinguishers and portable equipmentFire risk assessment and consultancy Local presence required

13 days left

21 October 2026

Value £100k

Portal

Gloucestershire County Council

Statutory Servicing, Reactive and Remedial Works

A framework comprising 22 Lots for statutory servicing, reactive and remedial works. Lots include: • Lot 1 - Lift Servicing • Lot 2 - Lightning Protection • Lot 3 - Ventilation and Air Conditioning • Lot 4a - Maintenance, Inspection and Repairs of Automatic Door, Gate & Barrier Systems • Lot 4b - Maintenance, Inspection and Repairs of Roller Shutters & Appli

Fire alarm and detectionSprinklers and suppressionEmergency lightingFire and security systems Framework

13 days left

21 October 2026

Value Not stated, 22 lots

Portal

Sheffield City Council

Fire Risk Assessments

Fire Risk Assessments Housing and Corporate

Fire risk assessment and consultancy

13 days left

21 October 2026

Value £240k

Portal

Beyond Housing Limited

Active Fire Prevention Services 2027-2032

Beyond Housing are currently out to tender for the provision of Active Fire Prevention Services. Suppliers that would like to take part in this tender process are invited to "Express Interest" upon which the will be given access to the full tender documentation delivery through this e-tendering system. When the tender documents have been made available invol

Fire alarm and detection

14 days left

22 October 2026

Value £735k

Portal

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

T26/27-022 PPM and RM 07 - Fire Alarm and Life Safety Systems for Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

This tender is for the provision of inspection, testing, maintenance, monitoring, reactive response, asset verification, certification and reporting of Fire Alarm and Life Safety Systems across the Council estate. Your proposal MUST be submitted within the eTendersNI portal, via this CfT. NO OTHER METHOD OF SUBMISSION WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Fire alarm and detection

18 days left

26 October 2026

Value Not stated

Portal

University of Huddersfield

Survey & Maintenance of Fire Dampers at The University of Huddersfield

The contractor is required to initially visually inspect the buildings using their knowledge and experience, they need to check all external ventilation grilles and ventilation systems that form part of the fire damper overall system, and satisfy themselves as to what might be needed. Prior to an annual service been conducted to maintain the dampers in situ.

Fire safety

21 days left

29 October 2026

Value £100k

Portal

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Parkstone House Fire Compartmentation

Supply and installation of Fire Compartmentation works to communal areas of multi-storey high rise residential building located within the Poole General Hospital campus

Passive fire and compartmentation

21 days left

29 October 2026

Value £1.0m

Portal

Leeds City Council

Fire Risk Assessment Works Closed Framework 2026 – 2029 (Housing and Non-Housing)

Leeds City Council (the “Council”) is looking to establish a closed framework of suitably qualified contractors to deliver Fire Risk Assessment Works to housing and non-housing properties across Leeds. We are looking to appoint up to 2 contractors to the framework from a closed list of suppliers who participated in the Preliminary Market Engagement exercise

Extinguishers and portable equipmentPassive fire and compartmentationFire doorsFire risk assessment and consultancyFire safety works and remediation Framework

26 days left

3 November 2026

Value £1.4m

Portal

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

QEHKL240 Fire Compartmentation Works

QEHKL240 Fire Compartmentation Works @ QEH

Passive fire and compartmentation

26 days left

3 November 2026

Value £60k

Portal

Kent County Council trading as Procurement Services

Fire Safety Products and Associated Services

The Framework Agreement will cover, but not be limited to, the following Goods/Services: •Active Fire Protection: Fire Alarm and detection systems, Suppression Systems (including sprinklers), Emergency Lighting. Monitoring and servicing. •Fire Risk Assessment & Consultancy, training. •Passive Fire Protection: Fire stopping, Fire door inspection, Passive Fire

Fire alarm and detectionExtinguishers and portable equipmentPassive fire and compartmentationFire doorsFire risk assessment and consultancySprinklers and suppressionEmergency lightingFire safety works and remediation Framework

28 days left

5 November 2026

Value £120m, 4 lots

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Hastoe Housing Association

MW2515 Harrowden Court Fire Works Phase 1

Firestopping of redundant access hatches, fire stopping to the perimeter of the existing flat entrance door frames and the installation of internal FD30S door sets to the kitchen area of a block of flats at Harrowden Court, Harrowden Road, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 0SR. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https:/

Passive fire and compartmentation

29 days left

6 November 2026

Value £50k

Portal

Closing in more than 30 days

Vale of White Horse District Council

Passive Fire Protection Remedial Repairs at Abbey House, Abingdon

This Invitation to Tender is issued to those bidders wishing to provide a tender to Vale of White Horse District Council for Passive Fire Protection Remedial Repairs at their premises at Abbey House, Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The Works contract will comprise of passive fire protection remedial works to fire doors and will also require some fire compartmentalisa

Passive fire and compartmentationFire doors

36 days left

13 November 2026

Value £220k

Portal

City & County of Swansea

Contract for the Execution of Fire Safety Works

Swansea Council intends to Carry out Fire Safety Works to various properties around Swansea. Clyne Court Blocks 1, 2 & 3. Swansea. SA2 8JD. Griffith John Street Blocks 1 & 2. Swansea. SA1 2BS. Matthew Street. Swansea. SA1 1PY. Rheidol Court. Swansea. SA6 7LH. Jeffreys Court. Swansea. SA5 7EP. Gloucester House. Swansea. SA1 1RW. Conway Court Blocks 1, 2 & 3.

Fire safety works and remediation

40 days left

17 November 2026

Value £1.4m

Portal

Source: Find a Tender UK4 tender notices, read 7 October 2026. Deadlines are the published submission deadlines converted to UK time; the portal is the only authority on the exact time and the documents. Values are the buyer's published estimates. Below-threshold contracts on Contracts Finder and the devolved portals are not yet included.

A fire tender closing in three weeks, done properly

A Sheffield fire alarm and extinguisher contractor contacted us on a Friday with a fire and rescue authority maintenance tender closing in nineteen days: six quality questions, 60 percent quality, reserved for firms in the local postcode area. The engagement letter was signed on the Monday and the plan was fixed the same day: evidence pack and portal access by day four, all six answers drafted by day eleven, client comments by day fourteen, independent review on day seventeen, upload on day eighteen, a day before the deadline.

The evidence pack is the whole job. For a maintenance contract that means the four insurances, BAFE and SSIP certificates in the bidding entity, engineer names and technician certificates, a sample service report and certificate from the field system, the asset list, call-out job sheets from the last 12 to 24 months, the policies the ITT asks for, a sample RAMS and three warm references. Incumbents hold all of it and rarely assemble it; the bid is won by the firm that does.

Fixed fee agreed before we start, scoped to the question count and the deadline. If the tender is not winnable for you, we say so on the first call. What we do for fire safety contractors, and how fire safety contracts are won.

Fire safety tender questions

How do I find fire safety tenders in the UK?

Above-threshold notices publish on Find a Tender and below-threshold ones on Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI, plus the regional portals (In-Tend, Delta eSourcing, ProContract, Jaggaer, Atamis) that buyers actually run the competition on. This page pulls every live fire safety tender from Find a Tender weekly and links the notice and the portal, so the search is done for you. Register on the portal before you need it: registration is the step that costs bidders days when a window is already open.

What does "local business presence required" mean on a fire tender?

Some buyers, particularly fire and rescue authorities and councils, reserve a maintenance contract for suppliers operating from premises in named postcode areas and will not evaluate a bid from outside them. The South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue fire alarm and extinguisher maintenance tender closing 21 October 2026 is reserved for the S and DN postcode areas. We flag these on the register because they are the tenders where a regional contractor is competing against a short list rather than the whole country.

What accreditations do fire safety tenders ask for?

It depends on the lot. Alarm and detection work is normally BAFE SP203-1 or an equivalent third party certification, extinguisher servicing BAFE SP101, passive fire and fire stopping FIRAS or IFC, fire risk assessment a competent assessor registered with a recognised scheme (and, under the Kent framework Lot 4, independence from installation and remedial work), and all of them a SSIP scheme such as CHAS or SafeContractor plus the usual insurances. Evaluators check the certificate is current and in the bidding legal entity. A recently renamed company bidding on the old entity's certificates is a compliance failure we have had to fix a week before a deadline.

Can a tender closing in two or three weeks still be bid properly?

Yes, if the evidence exists. A fire alarm maintenance tender with six quality questions is a two week piece of work: evidence pack in the first three days, drafts within a week, client comments, independent review and upload a day before the deadline. What cannot be compressed is evidence that does not exist, such as KPI data from the current contract or references who have not been warned. Call 020 3668 5488 with the deadline and we will tell you the same day whether it is achievable.

How are fire safety maintenance tenders scored?

Most are quality weighted. The South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue maintenance tender is 60 percent quality and 40 percent cost; the Kent Fire Safety Products and Associated Services framework is 60 percent quality, 30 percent price and 10 percent social value on every lot. The quality questions are about response times, engineer competence, asset data and reporting, and continuity when an engineer leaves. Incumbents win them with numbers from the current contract and lose them by assuming the evaluator already knows the record.

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