Essex Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner Fire & Rescue Authority: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Police-force-area·Police & fire·East of England·Witham
Official UK PPONPNDX-2545-YHRP
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
27 awarded tenders, 25 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
44 Construction structures and materials2 procedures · 7%45 Construction work2 procedures · 7%50 Repair and maintenance services2 procedures · 7%34 Transport equipment and products1 procedure · 4%35 Security, fire-fighting, police1 procedure · 4%48 Software package and information systems1 procedure · 4%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 28 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract100%(28 notices)
28 of 28 notices are Contract (100%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Limited / restricted43%(12 notices)
12 of 28 notices are Limited / restricted (43%).Direct award18%(5 notices)
5 of 28 notices are Direct award (18%).Open18%(5 notices)
5 of 28 notices are Open (18%).Selective14%(4 notices)
4 of 28 notices are Selective (14%).Route not published7%(2 notices)
2 of 28 notices are Route not published (7%).
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 28 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Safeguard VP Ltd | 3 | 11.1% | 3 | 3 | — |
| Delta Fire | 2 | 7.4% | 2 | 2 | — |
| LAMBERT SMITH HAMPTON GROUP LIMITED | 1 | 3.7% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Protectavan Solutions Ltd | 1 | 3.7% | 1 | 1 | — |
| XMA Limited | 1 | 3.7% | 1 | 1 | — |
| ACS Technology Group Ltd | 1 | 3.7% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Academia Ltd | 1 | 3.7% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Arctic Shores Limited | 1 | 3.7% | 1 | 1 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 22% of 27 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 25 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Planned Preventative Maintenance Wethersfield and Orsett Training Facilities | Frank Halls and Son Ltd | 25 Oct 2025 | 2 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £578,000 ≈ £289k/yr |
| Planned Maintenance, Repair and Replacement Contract - Bay Doors | HS Door Systems Ltd | — | — | £220,081 † |
| Fire Investigation Vans | Safeguard VP Ltd | — | 4 mo | £144,182 † |
| ECFRS00509 Lenovo Laptop Replacement | XMA Limited | — | 2 mo | £140,000 † |
| Supply of Mainline Branches | Delta Fire | — | 2 mo | £76,418 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
25 of 27 contracts carry an end date, 2 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| ECFRS00509 Lenovo Laptop Replacement | XMA Limited | 30 Nov 2026 | £140,000 |
| Lee Valley Hire Agreement | Greenwich Leisure Limited | 9 Dec 2026 | £64,837 |
| HPE and Nimble server maintenance and support | ACS Technology Group Ltd | 5 Feb 2027 | £45,396 |
| Psychometric Testing Subscription License | Arctic Shores Limited | 7 Feb 2027 | £30,000 |
| Purchase of 5G tablets with cases | Academia Ltd | 29 Mar 2027 | £39,382 |
| Provision of Reactive Supply of Tyres to Fleet Workshop | County Tyre Holdings Ltd (T/A BITS) | 26 Jul 2027 | £60,000 |
| Planned Maintenance, Repair and Replacement Contract - Bay Doors | HS Door Systems Ltd | 17 Aug 2027 estimated | £220,081 |
| ECFRS00315 Planned Preventative Maintenance Wethersfield and Orsett training Facilities | Frank Halls and Son Ltd | 11 Jan 2028 | £578,000 |
| Supply of fire extinguishers | Guardian Fire Safety Management Ltd | 25 Jan 2028 | £60,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 35 of 35 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Wethersfield Training Centre Fire Container | Awarded / complete | 11 Feb 2026 | — |
| ECFRS00315 Planned Preventative Maintenance Wethersfield and Orsett training FacilitiesFabrication work | Awarded / complete | 23 Dec 2025 | £250,000 |
| ECFRS00316 Planned Preventative Maintenance Appliance Bay DoorsRepair and maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 22 Dec 2025 | £350,000 |
| Fire Investigation Vans | Awarded / complete | 4 Dec 2025 | — |
| K9 vehicle supply and conversion | Awarded / complete | 26 Nov 2025 | — |
| The Supply and Disposal of Firefighting FoamFire suppression foam or similar compounds | Open | 6 May 2025 | £220,000 |
| ECFRS00369 Incident Command Unit VehicleVehicles for the emergency services | Open | 26 Feb 2025 | £400,000 |
| Workforce Management SystemScheduling and productivity software package | Planned | 28 Nov 2024 | £310,000 |
| ECFRS00318 End Of Life VehiclesMiscellaneous transport equipment and spare parts | Open | 25 Jul 2024 | £300,000 |
| Asset Tracking SolutionFor computer software | Planned | 10 Jun 2024 | — |
| ECFRS00237 Electrical Planned Preventative MaintenanceMechanical and electrical engineering services | Awarded / complete | 5 Feb 2024 | £300,000 |
| Heavy Plant and Operator Provision for Waste and Large Industrial and Agricultural Building FiresHire of industrial vehicles with driver | Open | 24 Nov 2022 | £100,000 |
| Financial Accounting ERP System ReplacementAccounting software package | Planned | 26 Aug 2022 | — |
| ECFRS00164 End of Life VehiclesMotor vehicles | Awarded / complete | 10 Mar 2022 | £450,000 |
| Contract for the Provision of a Replacement Control Systems SolutionCommand | Awarded / complete | 23 Sept 2021 | — |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 25 of 27 published contracts have an end date; 2 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.