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Engineering Inspection and Related Services
Authority: Royal Berkshire Fire Authority
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Authority has a requirement for engineering inspection services to inspect its Lifting equipment and other equipment to ensure the safety of the machinery, systems and personnel who interact with these equipment.
It is essential that lifting equipment are inspected at regular intervals to identify any faults and defects in machinery before they present risk and for the Authority to take remedial actions to correct any problems that might have identified during an inspection.
Under this contract, the majority of the equipment to be inspected are lifting equipment which comes under Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) which stipulates inspections as frequently as 6 or 12 months. Failure to inspect and correct any defects identified runs the risk of incurring fines if found to be in breach of health and safety law under the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)'s Fee for Intervention (FFI) cost recovery scheme.
The contract was direct awarded on YPO Framework 1014 - Engineering Inspection Services Including Insurance. Reference Number - 2022/S 000-010906
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Other -
- Buyer reference
- 20240117184033-71935
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Tender deadline
- Tender contract period: Start date
- Tender contract period: End date
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- RG31 7SD; British Oversea Territories; Channel Islands; Europe; Isle of Man; Rest of the World; United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Contract starts1 Nov 2023
- Award decision17 Jan 2024
- Notice published17 Jan 2024
- Contract ends31 Oct 2028
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- Royal Berkshire Fire AuthorityContracting authority
Suppliers named on the notice
- Zurich Insurance Company LtdSupplier
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-49f53f08-3fb1-4cc6-a28a-2df0ebbd9796-2024-01-17T18:40:39Z
- Published
- 17 Jan 2024
- Latest update
- 17 Jan 2024
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-49f53f08-3fb1-4cc6-a28a-2df0ebbd9796
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-49f53f08-3fb1-4cc6-a28a-2df0ebbd9796-1