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Provision of Financial Services and System

Avon Fire Authority · Transparency notice on Find a Tender

Tender information last checkedLast checked 4 Oct 2026, 17:01.

Opportunity overview

This is a transparency notice to notify the market that Avon Fire Authority, operating as Avon Fire & Rescue Service, is planning to award a 4 year (2 year initial term with 2 year extension option) contract to Bristol City Council for provision of financial services. The contract scope will include: - Accounting - Finance System - Treasury management - Creditors and - General revenue services Estimated contract value (including extensions) £800,000

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

Bristol City Council

Match pending…
Published award value
£800k
Awarded
Not supplied
Award ID
1
Status
pending
Identifier
GB-PPON PWXH-3837-PDTD
Location
Bristol, UKK11, BS1 5TR, United Kingdom

Classification

No classification was supplied.

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
AFRS03-2026-03
Status
complete
Procurement Method
direct
Procurement Method Details
Direct award
Why this procedure was chosen
Avon Fire Authority is indicating its intention to award a public contract to Bristol City Council for the provision of financial services, in accordance with Section 41 - Direct Award of the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23) having concluded that 'competition is absent for technical reasons' This decision is due to technical reasons namely that we have a shared finance database and software solution, meaning no other supplier can provide the system or services Avon Fire Authority will observe a standstill period of eight working days beginning the day after publication of this notice. The contract will be awarded in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23) and the Procurement Regulations 2024. It is considered that this contract can be awarded by way of a Direct Award to Bristol City Council in accordance with Section 41 and Schedule 5 - paragraph 6 (a)due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only a particular supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and (b)there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works.

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Procedure reasons

Entry 1
Id
singleSuppliersTechnicalReasons

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
complete

Published documents

Entry 1
Id
conflictOfInterest
Document Type
conflictOfInterest
Description
Not published

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
Avon Fire Authority
Id
GB-PPON-PYYL-6479-DWHX

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PYYL-6479-DWHX

Address

Street Address
Valley Road
Locality
Portishead
Postal Code
BS20 8JJ
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKK12

Contact

Name
Tanya Nathan
Telephone
+447879661066

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Id
publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Description
Public authority - sub-central government
Organisation 2
Name
Bristol City Council
Id
GB-PPON-PWXH-3837-PDTD

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PWXH-3837-PDTD

Address

Street Address
City Hall, College Green
Locality
Bristol
Postal Code
BS1 5TR
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKK11

Contact

Roles

supplier

Details

Scale
large
Vcse
No

Award information

Award 1
Id
1
Title
Provision of Financial Services and Systems
Status
pending
Main Procurement Category
services
Above Threshold
Yes
Has Renewal
Yes
Has Options
Yes

Items

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
66170000
Description
Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
Entry 2
Scheme
CPV
Id
66600000
Description
Treasury services
Entry 3
Scheme
CPV
Id
79210000
Description
Accounting and auditing services

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKK
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Value

Including VAT
960,000
Amount
800,000
Currency
GBP

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-PPON-PWXH-3837-PDTD
Name
Bristol City Council

Contract period

Starts
1 Apr 2026, 00:00
Ends
31 Mar 2028, 23:59
Max Extent Date
31 Mar 2030, 23:59

Renewal

Description
2 year extension available should supplier performance be as expected and direct award reasons still valid.

Options

Description
Ability to purchase additional modules for finance system

Related lots

1

Documents

Entry 1
Id
018625-2026
Document Type
awardNotice
Notice Type
UK5
Description
Transparency notice on Find a Tender
Published
2 Mar 2026, 16:22
Format
text/html

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
1
Type
futureSignatureDate
Due
16 Mar 2026, 23:59
Status
scheduled

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Portishead · UKK12 · BS20 8JJ · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. 018625-2026Transparency notice on Find a Tender ·