RFP QuestBeta
ClosedStage · tender

BlueLight Commercial Limited

BLC0302 Headwear and Accessories

Security & DefenceCPV 35811200
Value£12.0m
Deadline21 Jul 2026
Published30 Jun 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 30 Jun 2026ClosedCloses 21 Jul 2026
Who to contact
Daniel Spicer
daniel.spicer@bluelight.police.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

All responses must be submitted through the National BlueLight E-Commercial Portal, using the “Submit” function, for the avoidance of doubt, submissions made by any other method (including via correspondence on the e-commercial portal) will not be accepted. https://atamis-7459.my.site.com/s/Welcome

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£12.0mtotal contract value
median £210k
this tender£0£17.6m

This is a large award for Security, Defence & Safety Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 4,182 valued Security, Defence & Safety Equipment tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

BlueLight Commercial Limited has published 75 notices across all categories, and 47% of its awards go to a supplier it has used before.

Which is the argument for getting on the list rather than winning this one. The incumbent is rarely the last winner — it is the roster. See the retention odds by category →


You'll hear when BlueLight Commercial Limited publishes Security, Defence & Safety Equipment work again. One email per notice, unsubscribe in one click. We don’t use your address for anything else.

Match for your company
Sign up free to see how well this tender matches your company — the score, the signals that align, and where the gaps are.
The brief

The procurement aims to provide various requirements under a single compliant framework, which will be structured into the following seven lots: Lot 1: Traditional Caps Lot 2: Custodian Helmets & Traditional Bowlers – Fully Certified Lot 3: Custodian Helmets & Traditional Bowlers – Non-Certified Lot 4A: Leather and Split Leather Accessories Lot 4B: Textile Accessories Lot 5: Baseball Caps, Bump Caps and Woolly Hats.

Lot 6: Handcuffs Lot 7: Front Line Officer Torches.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The procurement aims to provide various requirements

The procurement aims to provide various requirements under a single compliant framework, which will be structured into the following seven lots:.

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.

Buyer intelligence

Make the case to bid

Reveal who to approach at BlueLight Commercial Limited, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.

Sign up free to unlock buyer intelligence

Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.

Deep dive · beta

The full intelligence dossier

Our agent reads BlueLight Commercial Limited’s accounts, hunts live signals, finds the people who decide — and hands you a bid strategy plus a go-to-market influence plan, including what your team should post this week. You approve every paid step.

Sign up free to run a deep dive

Five included while we’re in beta, and the agent asks before it spends on any paid step.

Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ba32
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
061352-2026
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

Market context

Who wins this kind of work

The suppliers and buyers around this opportunity — drawn from official award data. Drag to orbit; click a node to explore.

Top suppliers & buyers in Security, Defence & Safety Equipment

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.

BlueLight Commercial Limited’s tender network

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.