Provision of Fire Engineering Services

The Council's premises, colleagues and service users remain at risk of incidences of fire. It is therefore imperative that our premises incorporate sufficient fire precautions to ensure the early warning of a fire and facilitating safe, effective and efficient evacuation of all occupants from the premises. The objective is for the contractor to carry out the work in compliance with this Service Specification in a manner that will maintain the safe, efficient and reliable operation of the Council's buildings and deliver effective planned and preventative maintenance of all fire protection systems and equipment. The Contractor shall only use skilled and fully qualified staff for the works, where working on live circuits they must be registered as NICEIC full members and meet the requirements of BS 5839. In providing the Services, the contractor shall carry out all activities necessary for the continual running and efficient use of all specified Services. These activities shall include but are not limited to performing: Effective and efficient reactive repairs; Planned maintenance to ensure the all the Council's Fire Alarm systems, Emergency Lighting, Gas suppression systems and Fire Fighting equipment are kept in good working order, are effectively monitored and are compliant with all legal and environmental requirements. The tender documents are available for interested suppliers to download from the YORtender system (www.yortender.co.uk). Bidders are required to register on this site in order to access the documentation. Registration is free. For assistance with registering on the YORtender site and/or accessing the documents please contact +44 1670597136 or email yorkshiresupport@due-north.com