Quick answer — Lancashire Fire & Rescue ServiceLast refreshed 11 Sept 2024

At a glance

Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service has awarded £1.4m across 6 suppliers, with 17 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 28% · 8 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 71% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration28%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share71%
Pipeline · open now8
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service is a contracting authority, based in UKD. Tracks 23 published notices and 14 awards on PublicSupply.

23
Notices published
14
Awards
6
Suppliers engaged
2022
First award on file

Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£0
12 m spend
£350k
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£300k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£1mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

8

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

services5 · £1.4m
Unspecified11 · £1.0m
goods5 · £748k
works2 · £600k

Instrument type

contract23 · £3.8m
Source:Find a Tender: 12Contracts Finder: 11

Awarded contracts · 17 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
King's Trust Residential Training Programmes80000000£400kest.closed
GB-Preston: Managed Print Service for Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service (LFRS)Canon UK Ltd48000000£255k11 Sept 2024active
GB-Preston: Provision of Servicing Maintenance Repair and Supply of Fitness EquipmentGymgear Ltd Trading as Fitness Warehouse Ltd45212290£95k12 Jun 2024active
Clinical Governance and Trauma/First Aid Training£400kest.active
Clinical Governance and Trauma/First Aid Training80500000£0active
General Building and Joinery Servicesclosed
General Building and Joinery Services45216100£600kest.active
General Building and Joinery Services45216100£0active
Learning Management SystemOpen eLMS Ltdactive
Learning Management SystemOpen eLMS Ltd48000000£268k02 Nov 2022active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
MM
1 contract · SME
£400kest.
28% of total
2
LO
£400kest.
28% of total
3
OE
2 contracts · 02 Nov
£268k
19% of total
4
CU
1 contract · SME · 11 Sept
£255k
18% of total
▼ 100%
5
GL
£95k
7% of total
▼ 100%
6
BO
1 contract · SME
£0
0% of total

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
7 contracts
£1.4m
35%
Education, training
4 contracts
£1.2m
29%
Construction works
3 contracts
£695k
17%
Software packages, IT
4 contracts
£523k
13%
Business, legal, advisory
2 contracts
£300k
7%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Other
Education, training
Construction works
Software packages, IT
Business, legal, advisory
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

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 · 0 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

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.

71%
SME supplier share
target 33%
5
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
6
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKD
Contact
Krishna Radia
Email
luciaclark@lancsfirerescue.org.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

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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