Fire Safety Framework - Fire Consultancy
Framework Description
The Fire Safety Framework - Fire Consultancy is the fire consultancy lot of South East Consortium's Compliance Consultancy framework, giving public sector buyers pre-qualified fire safety consultants. It covers fire risk assessments, fire door inspections, compartmentation surveys with costed repair recommendations, and tagging of fire safety assets for tracking. The lot runs until 30 September 2028 and is not a DPS.
Context & Use Case
Landlords and other building owners use it to meet fire safety duties across their estates, commissioning fire risk assessments of internal, external and common areas, inspecting fire doors and surveying compartmentation. Asset tagging lets clients track fire safety equipment through a portal or their own IT systems, which supports their ongoing compliance records.
Scope of Services
Fire risk assessments (internal, external and common areas) Fire door inspections Compartmentation surveys with costed repair recommendations Fire safety asset tagging
Lots
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Who Can Apply
Suits fire safety consultancies with certified fire risk assessors and qualified fire door inspectors. Applications for this lot are closed; the next opportunity is SEC's re-tender of the Compliance Consultancy framework, which is likely around 30 September 2028.
Buyer Benefits
Buyers get assessors whose qualifications have been checked, and survey outputs with costed remedial recommendations they can turn straight into works programmes. Tagging assets into their own systems makes it easier to show regulators and residents that fire safety is under control.
Next Steps
Appointed consultancies should show SEC members sample FRAs, survey reports and the asset tagging outputs they provide. Others should prepare for the re-tender around September 2028 by documenting assessor certifications, inspection volumes, report turnaround and examples of compartmentation surveys that led to costed remedial programmes.
How Athena Can Help
Fire consultancy bids are judged on assessor competence and report quality. If you hold a place on SEC's Fire Consultancy lot, Athena's bid improvement service uses competitor analysis and a Bid Health Check to lift your call-off scores.
For the 2028 re-tender, our bid/no-bid evaluation helps you weigh this lot against SEC's fire safety works lots, and our registration support for frameworks prepares certifications, policies and case studies so nothing is missing at submission.
