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PRN004664 Underwater Drones

Upcoming United Kingdom Security, fire-fighting & defence equipment

Buyer Nottinghamshire and City of Nottingham Fire Authority

€117,601 estimated value · converted from GBP

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Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service is running a Preliminary Market Engagement exercise ahead of a future requirement for underwater drones. The service wants to learn more about the technologies, products and services currently available that could support surface based subsurface search, identification and recovery operations. The goal is improving firefighter safety, enhancing operational effectiveness and exploring innovative methods of locating, identifying and recovering submerged casualties and objects in a range of water environments. Suppliers must express an interest and download documents through the In-Tend e-procurement portal, and all responses and questions must be submitted via that portal. Interested companies are invited to share their market knowledge with the service.

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Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) would like to notify you of an upcoming requirement, and by doing so we are keen to widen our understanding and knowledge of the market. NFRS is conducting a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise to better understand the technologies, products and services currently available within the market that could support surface-based subsurface search, identification and recovery operations. This engagement forms part of NFRS's ongoing commitment to improving firefighter safety, enhancing operational effectiveness and exploring innovative methods of locating, identifying and recovering submerged casualties and objects in a range of water environments. This PME is being undertaken via the NFRS e-procurement portal In-Tend. In order to respond to this PME, please express an interest and download the documents. All responses and queries/ question must be made via the portal available via the following link: https://supplier.in-tend.co.uk/notts-fire/home

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Nottinghamshire and City of Nottingham Fire Authority

United Kingdom

notices in the register
6
awards
4

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Security, fire-fighting & defence equipment - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Axon Public Safety UK Ltd 3 €2.4M Aug 2026
REVEAL MEDIA LIMITED 3 €293,268 Aug 2026
Arco Limited 2 €12.6M Jul 2026
Chiptech international Limited 2 €1.1M Jul 2026
Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Limited 2 €46,612 Oct 2026

Based on 80 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

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Market context

open now in Security, fire-fighting & defence equipment
1,853
median open notice
€434,944

Who wins in this market

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United Kingdom · Security, fire-fighting & defence equipment

different companies won awards here
72
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
10%
buyers awarded contracts here
59

Based on 80 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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