Active Fire Framework 2025
Framework Description
Northern Housing Consortium's Active Fire Framework 2025 is a four-year route to market for active fire safety products and services. It is split into lots for consultancy, supply and installation, servicing, and fully managed services, and was advertised on Find a Tender as notice 021769-2025. Applications for this framework are closed, so the list of appointed suppliers is fixed for its term.
Context & Use Case
Housing associations, councils and other public bodies use it to meet their statutory fire safety duties across homes and other buildings. Typical work includes fire detection and alarm systems, suppression systems and fire door assurance. A buyer can take a single service, such as servicing an existing system, or pass the whole requirement to one supplier under the fully managed lot.
Scope of Services
Active fire safety consultancy Supply and installation of active fire systems Servicing of active fire systems Fully managed active fire services Fire detection, suppression and door assurance work
Lots
Lots cover consultancy, supply and installation, servicing, and fully managed fire safety services
Who Can Apply
Suits fire alarm, detection and suppression contractors, fire safety consultants and servicing firms with the relevant accreditations, insurances and social housing experience. The framework is live but applications are closed, so firms not appointed cannot join until NHC re-tenders it towards the end of its four-year term.
Buyer Benefits
Fire safety failures carry legal and reputational risk for landlords, so buyers want suppliers whose competence has already been checked. Separate lots let a member buy just the advice or servicing it needs, or hand the whole requirement to one fully managed supplier and cut the number of contracts it has to run.
Next Steps
Appointed suppliers should make sure NHC members know which lot they hold and be ready to price call-offs quickly. Others should check notice 021769-2025 for the term, plan for the re-tender, and build case studies of fire safety work for housing providers in the meantime, watching the NHC procurement pages for the next opportunity.
How Athena Can Help
For suppliers already on the Active Fire Framework, Athena's call-off bid support helps you win member work, with clear method statements, competitor scoring and pricing that still leaves a margin.
If you are not on it, our housing framework registrations service finds other fire safety frameworks that are open now or opening soon and handles the application, and our fire safety tender support helps you bid for contracts that housing providers tender directly in the meantime.
