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Fire Alarm Design, Installation, and Associated Project Management Services DPS

Business ServicesCPV 31625000

Value£12.5m

Deadline27 Jun 2031

Published2 Jul 2026

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 2 Jul 20261765 days leftCloses 27 Jun 2031

Who to contact

David McNeil

David.Mcneil@gov.scot

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£12.5mtotal contract value

median £94k

this tender£0£13.5m

This is a large award for Electrical Machinery & Apparatus — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 5,617 valued Electrical Machinery & Apparatus tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Scottish Government has published 5 Electrical Machinery & Apparatus notices, about every 11 months. On that rhythm the next one is expected around June 2027.

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The brief

The Scottish Government is looking to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Fire Alarm Design, Installation & Associated Project Management Services.

The DPS will be split into 2 Lots: Lot 1: Fire Alarm Design & Installation Lot 2: Associated Project Management Services Please Note: The value of call off- contracts will range from Thousands to Millions however no form of volume guarantee has been granted by the authority and therefore no commitment of spend is guarenteed through the DPS.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market

The Scottish Government is looking to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Fire Alarm Design, Installation & Associated Project Management Services.

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.

What it takes to bid this

45–80 daysof bid-team effort

£30.8k–£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

Show at bidComparable references / case studies
Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
Show at bidSocial value commitments

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