Awarded contract

Compartment Fire Behaviour & Breathing Apparatus Training

Details

Value
£170,000
Duration
2 years
Topic
Personnel-training services
Published
23 October 2025

Tender description

1. Training provided must be in line with the latest National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) UKF&RS National Operational Guidance – Foundation for Breathing Apparatus including the use of Telemetry enabled Breathing Apparatus sets and Entry Control Boards 2. Training provided must be in line with the latest National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) UKF&RS National Operational Guidance – Foundation for Firefighting including Fire Behaviour Indicators, Backdraught, Flashover, Fire Gas Ignition, Fire development, Tactical Ventilation, Flow Paths, appropriate firefighting/branch handling techniques, and the effective use of a Thermal Image Camera 3. Candidates must be exposed to simulations run in realistic conditions of heat and smoke 4. Scenarios should be facilitated to ensure all staff have at least one operational Breathing Apparatus (BA) wear as a Team Leader with assessment and feedback delivered by a competent Breathing Apparatus Instructor (BAI) 5. BA teams must consist only of two wearers and each team deployed must be accompanied by a qualified BAI to assess and feedback on performance 6. Scenarios will be developed in agreement with SFRS Training Manager and Breathing Apparatus Instructor leads ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published23 October 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date23 October 2025
  3. Next: Contract expiry date26 October 2027in 13 months

About the buyer

Sellafield Limited is a central government body and one of four component parts of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Group. The site's decommissioning programme ranks as the largest environmental restoration project in Europe. Procurement opportunities are managed through Atamis, its tendering portal. Contracts also appear on Contracts Finder and in a quarterly Procurement Plan schedule. No preferred supplier list operates, so any supplier meeting the criteria can tender. Major projects run through the Programme and Project Partners framework, a long-term supplier alliance. Decommissioning work is split among supplier alliances under the Decommissioning Delivery Partnership.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of Sellafield Limited's contract awards have been in IT services, architectural and engineering services and repair and maintenance.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 79632000 · Personnel-training services

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