Repair and maintenance services of firefighting equipment. Prior to the advent of North West Fire Control, Fire and Rescue Services (FRS) in the North West procured their Mobilising (Gd92) maintainence contracts on an individual basis.

With the imminent migration of four North West Fire and Rescue Services Control room functions to Lingley Mere beginning calendar q1 2014, we have adopted a joint approach to the procurement of maintainance for our mobilising systems.

It should be noted that the North West Fire Control contract is not within the scope of this document and therefore this contract relates to the mobilising message once it “clears” the firewall at NWFC, any mobilising faults on the NWFC side will be diagnosed and resolved by the NWFC contractor.

It is envisaged that the successful tenderer will manage the mobilising message across the FRS networks to receipt and successful mobilisation at station end.

The successful bidder will be expected to manage any third party faults such as network failures in resolving any incidents.

Each FRS has provided a list of equipment that they wish be maintained with an option for preventative maintainance. These are included within the documentation available via the Supply4NWfire portal.

The contract will be awarded for a period of three years (with an option to extend for a further twelve month period).

Greater Mancheter Fire and Rescue Service is running this procurement and contract for and on behalf of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service and Cumbria County Council, all of which will participate in this colloborative contract. It is anticipated that one contractor shall be appointed to service all participating FRS's, however following the evaluation of tenders, it may be that more than one contractor is appointed. This will be dependent upon the costs and service wraps offered to all FRS's.