Live register, refreshed 19 October 2026

Live fire safety tenders: 21 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

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

6 days left

29 October 2026

Value £100k

Portal

Closing in 8 to 30 days

Test Valley Borough Council

Fire Safety and Security Systems Servicing and Reactive Maintenance

Scope of Contract: Fire Safety and Security Systems Maintenance The proposed contract is for the planned preventative maintenance, statutory inspection, servicing, testing, certification, reactive repair, emergency response and minor works associated with Fire Safety and Security Systems installed throughout the property estate owned, occupied or managed by

Fire safety

10 days left

2 November 2026

Value £360k

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

10 days left

2 November 2026

Value Not stated

Portal

Northern Ireland Housing Executive

Supply and Delivery of Fire Doorsets

Housing Executive Direct requires a contract for the supply and delivery of fire doorsets. Please see the Tender Documentation for all requirements.

Fire doors

10 days left

2 November 2026

Value £950k

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

11 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

11 days left

3 November 2026

Value £60k

Portal

Forestry Commission

Fire Safety Building Compliance Services Framework

Building Compliance Fire Safety Services Framework which delivers vital services in this core area of building management compliance throughout the Forestry Commission Estate. The Supplier must be qualified and competent in providing professional advice on fire safety, undertaking fire risk assessments or audits and general fire safety advice including polic

Extinguishers and portable equipmentFire risk assessment and consultancyFire safety works and remediation Framework

12 days left

4 November 2026

Value £275k

Portal

Ipswich Borough Council

Fire Safety Systems - Service & Maintenance

Servicing and maintenance of Fire Safety Equipment for Ipswich Borough Council housing stock.

Fire alarm and detection

13 days left

5 November 2026

Value £180k

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

13 days left

5 November 2026

Value £120m, 4 lots

Portal

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

14 days left

6 November 2026

Value £50k

Portal

London Borough of Hillingdon

Service, Maintenance and Repair of Fire Alarm Systems and Fire Fighting Systems

The London Borough of Hillingdon wishes to appoint an experienced service provider for the servicing and maintenance of fire systems and fire protection, emergency lighting & safety devices ensuring compliance with all relevant industry, manufacturers and safety standards. The contract is to include Hillingdon Council's housing stock of over 11,000 propertie

Fire alarm and detectionEmergency lighting

17 days left

9 November 2026

Value Not stated

Portal

Ashford Borough Council

Fire Safety Equipment Maintenance and Repairs

ABC are looking to procure a contractor to deliver Fire Safety Equipment Maintenance and Repairs. The contractor will provide maintenance, repairs, and testing as required for the safe and continuing use of fire safety equipment. The contract will cover properties/assets which are the responsibility of the Housing Department and Corporate Property Department

Fire safety

18 days left

10 November 2026

Value £360k

Portal

West Lancashire Borough Council

Fire Risk Assessments - Domestic

The Council are looking for a suppler to conduct Fire Risk Assessments for our Domestic housing stock.

Fire risk assessment and consultancy

21 days left

13 November 2026

Value £340k

Portal

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

21 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

25 days left

17 November 2026

Value £1.4m

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

25 days left

17 November 2026

Value £1.0m

Portal

Poplar HARCA

Poplar HARCA Fire Remedial Works Contract

Poplar HARCA are looking to procure a Contractor for the delivery of a Fire Remedial Works Contract. The estimated annual Contract value is circa GBP300,000.00 to GBP400,000.00 (excluding VAT). This figure does not take into account annual indexation considerations or VAT. It is intended that the contracts will run for a period of five years with the option

Fire safety works and remediation

27 days left

19 November 2026

Value £4.0m

Portal

Milton Keynes City Council

Fire Protection Systems and Equipment Maintenance

Milton Keynes City Council are currently out to tender for the provision of Fire Protection Systems and Equipment Maintenance. For the Corporate Landlord stock (properties from which the council predominately offer their services) the Council has full maintenance responsibility (subject to assets) including reactive, quoted, planned, best practice and statut

Fire safety

27 days left

19 November 2026

Value £320k

Portal

Closing in more than 30 days

East Renfrewshire Council

Service, Maintenance and Reactive Repair of Sprinkler, Gas Suppression, Dry Riser and Fire Hydrants to various commercial premises 2027 - 2029

East Renfrewshire Council is seeking to appoint a suitably trained and competent supplier to undertake servicing, maintenance and repair of sprinkler systems, gas suppression, fire hydrants and dry-risers. The scope includes routine annual service and maintenance of existing sprinkler systems, gas suppression, fire hydrants and dry-risers for various East Re

Sprinklers and suppression

31 days left

23 November 2026

Value £400k

Portal

Source: Find a Tender UK4 tender notices, read 19 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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