Fire alarm maintenance contracts
UK public sector · 192 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
- 192
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £82k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £45.3m
- 171 of 172 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 122
- Suppliers
- 135
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See which ones
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What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most fire alarm maintenance contracts took 15% of them (28 of 192).
- Contracts awarded per quarter held steady across the period.
- The median contract, £82k, is 41% below the median across construction & trades contracts (£139k).
- North West had the most contracts: 39, or 20% of the total.
Who buys fire alarm maintenance
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1NHS Property Services Limited18 contracts£2.7m
- 2UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)6 contracts£922k
- 3Medway NHS Foundation Trust6 contracts£235k
- 4Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office5 contracts£228k
- 5NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership4 contracts£1.6m
- 6Gov Facility Services Ltd4 contracts£560k
- 7Hampshire County Council4 contracts£553k
- 8NHS Golden Jubilee4 contracts£244k
- 9Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council3 contracts£295k
- 10Knowsley Council3 contracts£255k
Top fire alarm maintenance contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Honeywell6 contracts£933k
- 2ADT Fire & Security6 contracts£435k
- 3E. Saunders (Margate) Ltd6 contracts£235k
- 4Protec Fire Detection PLC5 contracts£1.2m
- 5Static Systems Group5 contracts£952k
- 6Dalkia Scotshield4 contracts£3.0m
- 7Wessex Electricals4 contracts£454k
- 8Parogon Contracts Ltd3 contracts£1.6m
- 9DFP Services3 contracts£1.6m
- 10PROTEC FIRE DETECTION PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY3 contracts£944k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board to PROTEC FIRE DETECTION PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY · Awarded 2 October 2026
Capital City College Group to TP Fire & Security · Awarded 30 September 2026
Sellafield Ltd to Rockwell · Awarded 28 September 2026
Burnley Borough Council to CATCHPOINT (UK) LTD. · Awarded 25 September 2026
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to G & A Barnie Group · Awarded 22 September 2026
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board to Morris Line Engineering Ltd · Awarded 22 September 2026
Gov Facility Services Ltd to ADT Fire & Security · Awarded 18 September 2026
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council to WDS ELECTRICAL LIMITED · Awarded 16 September 2026
Northumbria Police to ADT Fire & Security · Awarded 16 September 2026
Bournemouth University to Unique Fire & Security Ltd · Awarded 14 September 2026
Largest
University of Edinburgh to FMS Fire and Security and OCS · Awarded 28 May 2026
Cardiff University to INNOVATIVE FIRE & SECURITY LIMITED and PROTECTORCOMMS LIMITED · Awarded 15 June 2026
Servicing and Maintenance of Fire, Security and Alarm System (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£2.5m
Lancashire County Council to EFT Group and S. J. F. ELECTRICS LIMITED · Awarded 29 October 2025
Chiltern Railways to Marlowe Fire & Security Limited · Awarded 8 January 2026
South Kesteven District Council to Fieldway Group · Awarded 16 February 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 161 · Scotland 14 · Wales 14 · Northern Ireland 3
What is included
Design, supply, installation, upgrade, servicing and repair of fire detection and alarm systems to BS 5839 Part 1, including aspirating and flame detection, evacuation alert and networked panels.
- Fire alarm servicing and maintenance
- Fire alarm upgrades and end-of-life replacement
- Panel and detector supply
- Aspirating (VESDA) detection
- Flame detection for special risks
- Communal alarms in residential blocks
- Simultaneous evacuation systems
What is not included
- Smoke, heat and CO alarms inside individual homes (con.fire.domestic-smoke-and-co-alarms)
- Contracts servicing several fire systems together (con.fire.active-fire-systems-servicing)
- Emergency lighting in the same lot (con.elec.emergency-lighting)
- Alarm receiving centre monitoring of fire alarms (sec.monitor.alarm-receiving-centre)
- Intruder alarms and integrated security systems (sec.access.intruder-alarm-systems, sec.access.integrated-security-systems)
- Standalone public address and voice alarm systems (it.av.pava-systems)
- Nurse call and refuge alarms (con.elec.nurse-call-systems)
- Waking watch and fire watch patrols (sec.patrol.waking-watch)