Fire Hydrants & Dry Risers – Servicing, Maintenance, and Reactive Works
Details
- Value
- £100,000
- Topic
- Miscellaneous fire-protection equipment
- Published
- 21 August 2025
Tender description
The University of Edinburgh is intending to go out to market within the next month to invite competitive tenders to establish contracting arrangements with a single supplier for a contract covering servicing, maintenance, and reactive works of fire hydrants and dry riser installations located throughout the University’s estate. It is intended that the contract will in place for an initial term of 2 years with two options to extend for periods of 1-year each (2+1+1). Interested parties should note their interest to this notice. Lot 1: The University of Edinburgh is intending to go out to market within the next month to invite competitive tenders to establish contracting arrangements with a single supplier for a contract covering servicing, maintenance, and reactive works of fire hydrants and dry riser installations located throughout the University’s estate. This contract will ensure that all the installations across the estate are maintained to the highest standard and in full compliance with all regulatory requirements. The appointed supplier shall be CHAS certified (or equivalent), BAFE SP105 accredited (or equivalent) and all service and maintenance operatives/technicians shall be NSI Gold accredited (or equivalent). The intention is to use the Open Procedure to tender the contract, however, this may change depending on the volume of interest this Notice generates. This tender will be published in due course on the Public Contracts Scotland Tender website. This is a different website to this website. Please ensure you are registered on the tender website which is free of charge to do so. https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/esop/pts-host/public/pts/web/login.html
Timeline
- Completed: Pre-tender published21 August 2025Current notice
About the buyer
University of Edinburgh buys as a higher education institution, through its own Procurement function. Larger tenders are advertised on Public Contract Scotland, via the PCS-T e-tendering platform. Suppliers must register separately on both systems before bidding. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements with APUC, Scotland Excel and the Crown Commercial Service. Prior information notices invite market engagement from suppliers ahead of larger tenders. The Strategic Procurement team leads regulated sourcing, while Operational Procurement manages day-to-day purchase orders. A Procurement Support team handles reporting, data analysis and training across the function.
Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.
Over the past 5 years, most of University of Edinburgh's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and software and information systems.
Relevant CPV codes
- 44480000 · Miscellaneous fire-protection equipment
- 44482200 · Fire hydrants
- 50000000 · Repair and maintenance services
Decision makers
Connect with the people behind this procurement.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov |
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