Fire Alarm Upgrades to 14 Supported & Sheltered Housing Schemes

Description

The appointment of a contractor for Fire Alarm Upgrades to 14 Supported & Sheltered Housing Schemes
Project Description
Swindon Borough Council (SBC), wishes to submit to tender the requirements for the provision of a fire systems contractor who will be responsible for the end-to-end process of ensuring that fire alarm systems are correctly installed, configured, and operational in accordance with the requirements of this specification, industry standards and regulatory requirements to 14 supported and residential Housing schemes
SBC have previously commissioned a specialist consultant to design fire alarm
systems for SBC sheltered and supported housing schemes to meet L1 and LD1 grade A requirements. These designs have now been taken up-to concept/spatial design stage (RIBA 3) identifying the component locations, wiring loops for the alarm systems and performance parameters.
We now seek to appoint a specialist contractor to carry on from the consultants RIBA 3 (developed design) stage, from RIBA stage 4 Technical design through, the supply/manufacture, installation, handover and use of a compliant operational fire alarm system (RIBA stages 4-7). This design shall incorporate the grading requirements of the fire alarm system, as well as remote monitoring and testing abilities identified within the Initial concept design.
The contract will be for a period of 18 months with no extension periods and is estimated to commence 30th March 2026.
Estimated contract spend is between £2,000,000 - £2,200,000 Ex Vat across the initial 18 month term.
Full details relating to the services are provided in the tender documents.
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Tender clarifications to be submitted in writing via Messaging in ProContract tender portal by 12th November 2025 15:00 hrs UK Local time. The Council’s responses to these clarification questions will be issued periodically on the ProContract tender portal.
Tender Responses are required to be submitted no later than 19th November 2025, 15:00 hrs  UK Local time via ProContract tender portal  - https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/
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No Tender submissions will be considered without completing the tender documents in full including attachments and returning them in alignment with the instructions within the tender documents.