Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-10-29
Buyer: Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
Country: UK
Region: SCOTLAND
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 35111000: Fire-fighting equipment | 35111500 | 35111510
Estimated value: 157606.2 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: SFRS has a requirement for the provision and fitting of Combined Cold Cutting and Ultra High Pressure Fire Fighting Equipment to their appliances. There will be an initial requirement for a number of the equipment to be provided and fitted in order to allow SFRS to conduct a 6 month pilot evaluation of the equipment in an operational environment. Dependant on the outcome of this pilot, SFRS may purchase further units to be deployed within each Service Delivery Area.
The system shall support firefighting operations from outside the fire compartment The system shall provide a piercing/cutting capability through all conventional construction materials: brick/stone/breeze block/construction block/sheet metal/ concrete (including reinforced)/sandwich panels/timber
The lance/branch must be constructed in such a manner as to be easily operated safely by a single person unaided.
The cost shown for Lot 1 is for the purchase of the initial equipment required for the initial six month pilot evaluation following which SFRS shall review the outcome of the pilot and reserves the right to purchase further units as budget becomes available.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
The system shall support firefighting operations from outside the fire compartment The system shall provide a piercing/cutting capability through all conventional construction materials: brick/stone/breeze block/construction block/sheet metal/ concrete (including reinforced)/sandwich panels/timber
The lance/branch must be constructed in such a manner as to be easily operated safely by a single person unaided.
The cost shown for Lot 2 is for the purchase of the initial equipment required for the initial six month pilot evaluation following which SFRS shall review the outcome of the pilot and reserves the right to purchase further units as budget becomes available.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
The equipment required under this lot is specifically to equip fire fighting crews to attack fires and improve fire conditions prior to entry into a compartment. It will reduce risk to fire fighters, reduce fire damage and increase the ability of the fire fighter to make interventions at compartmental fires.
The cost shown for Lot 3 is for the purchase of the initial equipment required for the initial six month pilot evaluation following which SFRS shall review the outcome of the pilot and reserves the right to purchase further units as budget becomes available.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
An initial budget has been allocated to conduct a six month pilot evaluation of cold cutting equipment in an operational environment. On completion of this process SFRS shall review the outcome of the pilot and reserve the right to purchase further units as budget becomes available.


Award value: 157606.2
Number of bids: 10