Quick answer — Royal Berkshire Fire AuthorityLast refreshed 14 Nov 2025

At a glance

Royal Berkshire Fire Authority has awarded £33.9m across 123 suppliers, with 95 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 18% · 14 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 11% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration18%
Modifications · 90 d1
SME spend share11%
Pipeline · open now14
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Royal Berkshire Fire Authority is a contracting authority, based in UKJ11. Tracks 253 published notices and 231 awards on PublicSupply.

253
Notices published
231
Awards
123
Suppliers engaged
2019
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£50k
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£86k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Royal Berkshire Fire Authority — 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

8

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

14

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

Unspecified219 · £28.3m
services25 · £21.8m
works2 · £800k
goods7 · £300k

Instrument type

contract250 · £51.3m
call off3 · £0
Source:Contracts Finder: 197Find a Tender: 56

Awarded contracts · 95 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Royal Berkshire Fire Authority is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Recruitment of Agency StaffWADE MACDONALD LIMITEDactive
THE PROVISION OF SMOKE ALARM MAINTENANCE AT HQADT FIRE AND SECURITY PLCactive
Provision of Lone Worker Application and related Services79711000planning
Waste collection, disposal and environmental services90500000£275kest.active
Hard Facilities Management (FM) Services50710000£4.5mest.active
Purchase of Electrical Power ToolsToolden Limitedactive
Provision for Property Valuation and Re-Instatement CostsBRUTON KNOWLES LIMITEDactive
TVFCS Command & Control72000000£11.0mest.active
Provision of Hard FM Services45300000planning
Provision of Sage support and maintenance and contract and related servicesDatel Group Plcactive
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
KB
1 contract · 13 Dec
£6.0m
18% of total
2
CL
8 contracts · 04 Mar28 Mar
£4.5mest.
13% of total
3
SS
3 contracts · SME · 01 Apr22 Mar
£3.7mest.
11% of total
4
SP
6 contracts · 14 Apr11 Apr
£2.2mest.
6% of total
5
CE
2 contracts · 01 Jun28 Mar
£1.5m
4% of total
6
NF
1 contract · 28 Mar
£1.3m
4% of total
7
SF
1 contract · 01 Oct
£940k
3% of total
8
RS
£750k
2% of total
9123
···
115 other suppliers
long tail · 13 SMEs
£12.9m
38% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software
13 contracts
£11.3m
29%
Construction works
25 contracts
£10.1m
26%
Repair & maintenance
9 contracts
£4.9m
13%
Business, legal, advisory
15 contracts
£3.4m
9%
Sewage, waste, environment
4 contracts
£2.5m
6%
Software packages, IT
20 contracts
£2.3m
6%
Government administration
1 contract
£2.2m
6%
Furniture, cleaning
13 contracts
£2.1m
5%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
IT services, software
Construction works
Repair & maintenance
Business, legal, advisory
Sewage, waste, environment
Software packages, IT
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 · 1 in 90 d

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

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 1 notice 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.

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.

11%
SME supplier share
target 33%
17
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
123
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 11% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

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
UKJ11
Contact
Rahul Venu
Email
procurementenquiries@rbfrs.co.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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