Fire Safety Works - Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS): FIRE SAFETY COMPARTMENTATION & ASSOCIATED WORKS

Description

Bristol City Council (BCC) has created a DPS list of approved contractors for the purpose of remedial fire stopping and asbestos removal to low-rise flats and maisonettes. This contract involves carrying out fire compartmentation works to occupied residential flats and communal areas to blocks of between 2 & 5 storeys high blocks with various tenures. In addition some work may be required to be carried out in our high-rise blocks. Where possible packages will be made up of blocks of flats in close proximity to each other. Although most properties are fitted with either self-contained battery operated smoke alarms or individual hard wired smoke alarms, most Bristol City Council (BCC) housing blocks do not have integrated fire alarm systems due to the risk of vandalism. Instead the blocks were constructed to meet the requirements of the Building Regulations, using a compartmented design to limit the spread of smoke and flames in the event of a fire. Individual dwellings and communal areas are sub-divided by way of solid block walls and concrete floors. The Fire and Rescue Service (AFR) now has primary responsibility for enforcing post occupation safety in all blocks that contain communal areas under the Regulatory Reform Order 2005. The order requires landlords, such as BCC to carry out risk assessments of buildings to identify, remove or reduce risks and to put in place measures to protect occupants. Bristol City Council (BCC) is currently replacing over 1000 fire door sets per year with the doors and joinery being produced by our own joinery workshop and installed by the in-house workforce. However they do not currently have capacity to meet all our programme requirements. Therefore BCC intends to enter into a 5 year DPS Contract starting April 2020 with approved contractors to meet our programme requirements. The contract will be for; Fit only FD30s or FD60s fire doors and frames supplied by BCC, Or Supply and fit new FD30s or FD60s fire doors and frames (low volumes only) Or supply and fit new timber framed glazed fire screens (low volumes only), Or maintenance & repair of fire doors. Or supply and fit fire resistant meter cupboard doors (low volumes only).