Buyer profile · Police and fire

Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority tenders and contracts

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Official name on notices: Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority

Tenders published
11
About one every 33 days
Contracts awarded
15
To 18 different suppliers
Value awarded
£1.69m
11 contracts, frameworks excluded
Typical contract
£178k
Median value awarded
Open now
0
3 coming up

Figures cover in the last 12 months, from notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.

Open tenders

Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority has no tenders open right now.

Coming up

Pipeline, market engagement and planned procurement notices: early warning of tenders to come.

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When it goes to market

Tender notices published each month. Active in 6 of 12 months.

What it buys

Procurements in the last 12 months, by trade.

Who it buys from

Suppliers awarded contracts in the last 12 months, by value awarded (frameworks excluded).

  1. 1 contract
  2. 1 contract
  3. 1 contract
  4. 1 contract
  5. 1 contract
  6. 1 contract
  7. 1 contract
  8. 1 contract

How it buys

How much of its work was open to any supplier.

  • Advertised openly (any supplier could bid)60%
  • Framework call-off (only suppliers on the framework)5%
  • Direct award (no competition)35%
Based on 20 procurements.

Scorecard

How we score

How Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority has bought over the last 12 months, compared with similar buyers.

Time to bid
27 days
Shorter than 85% of police and fire services
Based on 11 advertised tenders
Advertised openly
60%
Higher than 79% of police and fire services
Based on 20 procurements
Won by small firms
61%
Higher than 64% of police and fire services
Based on 18 winning suppliers
Bids per contract
6
More than 70% of police and fire services
Based on 9 awards
Split into lots
27%
Higher than 73% of police and fire services
Based on 11 advertised tenders
Direct awards
35%
Higher than 51% of police and fire services
Based on 20 procurements
Cancelled
18%
Higher than 73% of police and fire services
Based on 11 tenders

Compared with other police and fire services

Time to bid, 28 police and fire services
Show as a table
RangeBuyers
0–5 days0
5–10 days0
10–15 days0
15–20 days0
20–25 days0
25–30 days11
30–35 days14
35–40 days3
40–45 days0
45–50 days0
50–55 days0
55–60 days0
60+ days0
Bids per contract, 21 police and fire services
Show as a table
RangeBuyers
0–2 bids2
2–4 bids6
4–6 bids6
6–8 bids3
8–10 bids3
10–12 bids0
12–14 bids0
14–16 bids1
16–18 bids0
18–20 bids0
20+ bids0
Advertised openly, 58 police and fire services
Show as a table
RangeBuyers
0–10%13
10–20%10
20–30%7
30–40%5
40–50%3
50–60%7
60–70%3
70–80%2
80–90%4
90–100%4
Won by small firms, 54 police and fire services
Show as a table
RangeBuyers
0–10%1
10–20%1
20–30%3
30–40%7
40–50%7
50–60%11
60–70%13
70–80%7
80–90%4
90–100%0

Each column is a group of police and fire services with similar figures. The coloured column holds Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority.See the full scoreboard

Contracts ending in the next 90 days

Contracts like these are often re-tendered. Knowing early gives you time to prepare.

No contracts we hold from Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority end in the next 90 days.

3 more contracts end in the next 12 months.

Recent contract awards