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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Provision of Fire Safety Equipment Servicing & Maintenance

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 50413200
Value£140k
Awarded8 Aug 2019
Published25 Oct 2019
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£140ktotal contract value
median £130k
this tender£0£4.8m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Repair & Maintenance band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The University of Southampton is looking to contract out the annual servicing & maintenance of all portable fire equipment managed by the Estates and Facilities Department.

All fire equipment is to be serviced and maintained in accordance with current legislation, best practice and BS 5306 Commissioning & Maintenance of Portable Fire Equipment - Code of Practice.

Portable fire equipment is located throughout the University of Southampton's sites including Highfield, Avenue, Boldrewood & Winchester School of Arts Campuses, Satellite Sites and Halls of Residence.

The University uses an e-tendering portal, In-tend.

To apply for this tender opportunity, please follow the link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofsouthampton/aspx/home In order to gain access to the documents, you will need to express and interest in this project and obtain a log on to the In-tend system.

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BS 5306 (fire extinguishing installations)Standards the work must meet
All fire equipment is to be serviced and maintained in accordance with current legislation, best practice and BS 5306 Commissioning &

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OCID
76c67a5b-cdd1-4f75-b97b-f6f23bf91ba5
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
2019UoS-0133
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