At a glance
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Authority has awarded £17.0bn across 132 suppliers, with 94 live contracts.
Why: Top supplier share 3% · 8 open notices now · 2 awards in last 90 d (£43.4m) · SME share 40% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 2 modifications in last 90 d.
About this buyer
Mission, scope and statutory context.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Authority is a contracting authority, based in UKK43. Tracks 225 published notices and 226 awards on PublicSupply.
Spend profile
Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.
Contract pipeline
Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.
Planned
15
Open (bidding)
8
Awarded (90d)
2
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 94 live
All contracts with a published award notice where Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Authority is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regional Cleaning Services | — | 90910000 | £55.0mest. | — | planned |
| Camels Head Fire Station - New Build | — | 45216121 | £4.9mest. | — | planned |
| Regional Cleaning Services | Churchill Contract Services Limited | £43.4m | 09 Mar 2026 | pending | |
| PSDS3C Decarbonisation Project: Greenbank and Middlemoor Fire Stations | G&H Building Services | 45453100 | £664k | 04 Feb 2026 | active |
| DS520-25 Vehicle Hire | Scot Group Ltd trading as Switch Car and Van Rental | 34100000 | £2k | 04 Sept 2025 | active |
| Awarded Contract | Cornerstone OnDemand | 48000000 | £160k | 01 Feb 2026 | active |
| Data Backup Solution | Softcat Plc | 48000000 | £90k | 15 Jan 2026 | active |
| ITSM Solution | HORNBILL SERVICE MANAGEMENT LIMITED | 48000000 | £121k | 15 Apr 2025 | active |
| DS507-25 Base Vehicles for Incident Command Units | Volkswagen Group UK Ltd | 34144200 | £163k | 11 Dec 2025 | active |
| Contract Award - Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme | NHS Fleet Solutions c/o Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Tr | 34144900 | £1.8m | 15 Dec 2025 | active |
Top suppliers · by total award value
Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.
Category spend breakdown
By CPV division · lifetime awards
Activity heatmap
Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.
Commercial & procurement leadership
Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.
Curated leadership roster
Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.
Modifications · 2 in 90 d
Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.
Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging
We see 2 notices tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.
Compliance & transparency
FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.
FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion
Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.
SME & social value
Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.
target 33%
Peer benchmark
vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.
Compare against the peer group
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News mentions
Major UK press & trade publications.
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Statutory & accountability
Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.
Identifiers & contact
- Type
- Contracting authority
- Region
- UKK43
- Contact
- Aimee Lee
- procurement@dsfire.gov.uk
Board & accountable officers
Accountable officer + board roster
Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.
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