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ASTER GROUP LIMITED

Technology Enabled Care Services at Aster Group

Communications EquipmentCPV 64200000
Value£3.0m
Deadline8 Jun 2026
Published11 May 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 11 May 2026ClosedCloses 8 Jun 2026
Who to contact
aster.procurement@aster.co.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£3.0mtotal contract value
median £200k
this tender£0£7.9m

This is a large award for Postal & Telecommunications — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 2,074 valued Postal & Telecommunications tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Aster provides Technology Enabled Care (TEC) services across a range of grouped living, sheltered and extra care schemes, supporting residents through Hard-Wired alarm systems, Digital Alarm Units (DAUs), dispersed TEC devices and emergency call-handling arrangements.

As part of the national digital switchover, all analogue systems must transition to digital-ready solutions by 2027.

This requires a coordinated approach across both the maintenance of physical TEC equipment and the delivery of monitoring and alarm receiving services.

Lot 1 covers the maintenance, servicing, repair and future upgrade of Aster's Hard-Wired alarm systems, DAUs,smoke detection and fire panels within dwellings.

The Contractor will support Aster in ensuring equipment reliability, minimising downtime, maintaining accurate asset data and enabling a smooth transition from analogue to digital-ready systems.

These services play a critical role in ensuring that residents can raise alerts safely and consistently.

Lot 2 covers Monitoring and Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) Services.

The ARC is responsible for receiving alarm activations, responding to calls, triggering appropriate actions and supporting residents in emergency and welfare situations.

The ARC provider will also be responsible for onboarding new TEC users, including configuring monitoring profiles, ensuring alarms route correctly and maintaining up-to-date service user information.

In addition, the ARC provider will be required to deliver a suite of performance and operational reports that enable Aster to review service outcomes, monitor compliance, identify trends and assure resident safety.

Tenderers must therefore clearly outline the reports they propose to provide as part of their response.

The ARC must provide key industry updates from the TSA.

Together, the Lot 1 and Lot 2 services form an end-to-end TEC operating model that ensures residents receive a safe, reliable and digitally resilient service.

Aster is seeking partners who can support this transformation, safeguard service continuity through the digital migration period and deliver a high-quality resident experience.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

As part of the national digital switchover

As part of the national digital switchover, all analogue systems must transition to digital-ready solutions by 2027.

02

The Contractor will support Aster in ensuring

The Contractor will support Aster in ensuring equipment reliability, minimising downtime, maintaining accurate asset data and enabling a smooth transition from analogue to digital-ready systems.

03

The ARC is responsible for receiving alarm

The ARC is responsible for receiving alarm activations, responding to calls, triggering appropriate actions and supporting residents in emergency and welfare situations.

04

The ARC provider will also be responsible

The ARC provider will also be responsible for onboarding new TEC users, including configuring monitoring profiles, ensuring alarms route correctly and maintaining up-to-date service user information.

05

In addition, the ARC provider will

In addition, the ARC provider will be required to deliver a suite of performance and operational reports that enable Aster to review service outcomes, monitor compliance, identify trends and assure resident safety.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060945
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
043242-2026
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