Firebuy to hold briefing days for new Radio Equipment Procurement
Firebuy has announced that it will be beginning a radio equipment procurement which will be designed to provide Fire and Rescue Services with everything they may need to support the supply, service and maintenance, installation, decommissioning, and storage of radio equipment and ancillary item
As part of the procurement process Firebuy will be holding two briefing events in September.
2 September 2009 - Users Briefing day
29 September 2009 - Industry Briefing Day
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Hand Held Radio framework agreement due to commence 1 September 2009
Firebuy's recent procurement to set up a framework agreement for hand held radios is approaching completion and is due to be let from 1 September 2009. This framework agreement for the supply of hand held radios, which includes both analogue and digital radios, base stations together with service and maintenance, replaces and significantly improves the existing Firebuy framework. The framework is available to the wider public sector.
The purpose of this procurement was to provide a multi- supplier framework agreement with a more extensive range of products for purchasing bodies to call-off as required. It is the responsibility of purchasing bodies across the public sector. to decide which radios are suitable for their different operational situations.
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Chemical Protective Clothing framework agreement due to commence 1 September 2009
Firebuy's recent procurement to set up a framework agreement for Chemical Protective clothing is approaching completion and is due to be let from 1 September 2009. The purpose of this procurement is to provide a multi-supplier framework agreement with a more extensive range of products for purchasing bodies to call-off as required which is a significant improvement on the single-supplier framework novated to Firebuy from OGC.
This framework is part of the Respiratory Protective Equipment project and is available to the wider public sector. It will be the responsibility of the purchasing bodies across the public sector to decide which clothing is suitable for particular operational situations.
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Firebuy ties in with Belgium and Netherlands for a project to develop innovation in protective textiles
Firebuy recently received confirmation that it has been successful, along with LFR, a Dutch Ministry Department responsible for the procurement and development of equipment for the fire service in Holland and IBZ which is part of the Home Affairs Ministry dealing with Civil Security in Belgium in winning funding worth nearly €1 million over three years for a project to develop innovation in protective textiles.
The project itself is called ENPROTEX. The headline objective of the ENPROTEX project for which Firebuy is the lead organisation is to play a significant role in overcoming the current barriers that exist to innovation within the European public procurement arena in the field of protective textiles.
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Firebuy to launch new website
Over the next six weeks, Firebuy is updating its website with the new site being launched at the beginning of October 2009. The new website will be designed to be more customer focussed, easier to navigate and provide more information for Firebuy's customers and key stakeholders. A user group with volunteers from FIRESA has already been set up and further user groups will be introduced to represent other interested parties to make sure that the end result is a website that meets everyone's needs. If you would like to take part in this development and become a member of one of the user groups please contact Tracy Atchison at tracy.atchison@firebuy.gov.uk
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