The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS")
Maintenance of Fire Fighting Equipment
£120,000 — stated in the notice.
This sits in the lower-middle of the Repair & Maintenance band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.
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The Contractor is required to maintain service, repair, modify and replace where required all fire fighting equipment across the whole of the Participating Authority’s estate including portable fire fighting equipment (e.g. fire extinguishers and fire blankets),gas suppression, hydrants and dry risers and to ensure that all records of equipment are up-to-date and relevant.
The Contractor shall ensure full compliance with all current Fire Safety Legislation and guidance including but not limited to the following: The Fire ( Scotland ) Act 2005 as Amended; The Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006; Scottish Health Technical Memorandum , Firecode 81 – 85; and BS 5306-9 2017 Recharging of Portable Fire Extinguishers; BS 750:2012 (for hydrants); BS 9990:2015 and BS 5306 part 1 (for risers): In addition to these requirements all equipment must be kite marked and CE marked as required in Scotland.
The Contractor will ensure that, in the course of providing the services and any other advice or recommendations, the Participating Authority is not in breach of any legislation, regulations and SHTMs.
Where required by the Participating Authority representative, the Contractor will ensure that the Contractor operatives entering any Participating Authority site are Disclosure Scotland or PVG Scheme cleared.
When requested, the Contractor must provide details or copies of the following: BAFE (British Approvals for Fire Equipment) & certificate number; FETA (Fire Extinguishing Trade Association) certificate; BFC (British Fire Consortium) certificate.
Equipment must not be removed without temporary replacement of identical size and type left in the place of the removed unit.
The Contractor shall ensure that all Health and Safety requirements are met and that method statements and risk assessments are provided to the Participating Authority representative as required and prior to work being undertaken.
What the notice asks for
The Contractor shall ensure full compliance
The Contractor shall ensure full compliance with all current Fire Safety Legislation and guidance including but not limited to the following:.
In addition to these requirements all equipment
In addition to these requirements all equipment must be kite marked and CE marked as required in Scotland.
The Contractor will ensure that, in
The Contractor will ensure that, in the course of providing the services and any other advice or recommendations, the Participating Authority is not in breach of any legislation, regulations and SHTMs.
Where required by the Participating Authority representative
Where required by the Participating Authority representative, the Contractor will ensure that the Contractor operatives entering any Participating Authority site are Disclosure Scotland or PVG Scheme cleared.
When requested, the Contractor must provide details
When requested, the Contractor must provide details or copies of the following:.
Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.
What this notice demands of you
3 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.
BS 5306-9 2017 Recharging of Portable Fire Extinguishers;
Where required by the Participating Authority representative, the Contractor will ensure that the Contractor operatives entering any Participating Authority site are Disclosure Scotland or PVG Scheme cleared.
Where required by the Participating Authority representative, the Contractor will ensure that the Contractor operatives entering any Participating Authority site are Disclosure Scotland or PVG Scheme cleared.
Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.
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- OCID
- ocds-h6vhtk-034d33
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Buyer ref
- 018060-2022
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