Active fire protection contracts
UK public sector · 89 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 89
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £375k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £103m
- 82 of 83 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 80
- Suppliers
- 82
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See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most active fire protection contracts took 21% of them (19 of 89).
- Contracts awarded per quarter held steady across the period.
- The median contract, £375k, is 2.7 times the median across construction & trades contracts (£139k).
- North West had the most contracts: 12, or 14% of the total.
Who buys active fire protection
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1NHS Property Services Limited2 contracts£9.0m
- 2ORBIT GROUP LIMITED2 contracts£1.6m
- 3Chelmer Housing Partnership2 contracts£1.1m
- 4ClwydAlyn2 contracts£867k
- 5Cardinal Newman College2 contracts£599k
- 6WESTWORKS PROCUREMENT LIMITED2 contracts£345k
- 7Southside Housing Association2 contracts£311k
- 8Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council2 contracts£27k
- 9Portsmouth City Council1 contract£16.0m
- 10Choice Housing1 contract£8.5m
Top active fire protection contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Fieldway Group6 contracts£3.6m
- 2RGE Services Ltd4 contracts£19.5m
- 3AJS Ltd4 contracts£2.6m
- 4Ventro4 contracts£808k
- 5Openview Security Solutions3 contracts£11.1m
- 6Walker Fire (UK) Ltd.3 contracts£4.4m
- 7Snowdonia Fire Protection3 contracts£2.4m
- 8Churches Fire Security Ltd3 contracts£833k
- 9BRIGGS FIRE AND SECURITY LIMITED3 contracts£326k
- 10Fire Systems Limited2 contracts£4.0m
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Welland Procurement to Fieldway Group · Awarded 25 September 2026
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership to Hartson Fire Limited · Awarded 22 September 2026
Kingston University Higher Education Corporation to Phoenix Integrated Security Ltd and Trinity Fire & Security Systems · Awarded 15 September 2026
Gloucestershire Hospitals Subsidiary Company Limited to PROTEC FIRE DETECTION PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY · Awarded 9 September 2026
Star Academies to EFT Group, S. J. F. ELECTRICS LIMITED, Severnside Security Limited and TP Fire & Security · Awarded 9 September 2026
Provision of Service and Maintenance of Fire Safety Systems (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£280k
First Choice Homes Oldham to Fieldway Group · Awarded 8 September 2026
WHHT - Gas Suppression System / Fire Alarm Modification Works (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£22k
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to ALARM COMMUNICATION LIMITED · Awarded 4 September 2026
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust to Pyrotec Services · Awarded 25 August 2026
Cardinal Newman College to SCOPE FIRE AND SECURITY LTD · Awarded 21 August 2026
London Borough of Lewisham to AJS Ltd · Awarded 21 August 2026
Largest
Portsmouth City Council to RGE Services Ltd · Awarded 13 May 2026
Choice Housing to Building Protection Systems N I Ltd · Awarded 27 May 2026
NHS Property Services Limited to Openview Security Solutions · Awarded 2 January 2026
Fire Safety Testing and Maintenance - Onward Group - 2025 (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£6.6m
Onward Group to The Wiggett Group · Awarded 24 April 2026
Communities & Housing Investment Consortium (CHIC) to Communities & Housing Investment Consortium (CHIC) · Awarded 30 June 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 76 · Scotland 7 · Wales 4 · Northern Ireland 2
What is included
Term servicing, testing and repair of several active fire safety systems under one contract, such as fire alarms, extinguishers, sprinklers, dry risers, suppression and AOVs, delivered by a fire protection contractor.
- Combined servicing of alarms, extinguishers, risers and sprinklers
- Active fire safety frameworks
- Life safety system planned maintenance and call-outs
- Multi-system fire protection upgrades
What is not included
- Single-system contracts (the matching con.fire service)
- Fire doors and passive protection (con.fire.fire-doors-and-shutters, con.fire.fire-stopping-and-compartmentation)
- Emergency lighting in the same contract (con.elec.emergency-lighting)
- Maintenance across several M&E disciplines (con.me.integrated-me-maintenance)
- Alarm receiving centre monitoring (sec.monitor.alarm-receiving-centre)
- Security systems in the same contract (sec.access.integrated-security-systems)