Purpose

Surrey Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) currently operates a fleet of BMW X3 Officer Response Vehicles (ORVs) which are approaching the end of their operational life. The existing vehicles are experiencing increasing maintenance requirements, reduced reliability and declining cost effectiveness, resulting in a growing risk to fleet availability and service resilience.

Officer Response Vehicles play a vital role in enabling the rapid deployment of officers to incidents across Surrey, providing operational command, control and oversight at emergency incidents. Maintaining a reliable and resilient fleet is therefore essential to support effective emergency response arrangements and safeguard public and firefighter safety.

Following a compliant procurement process, a supplier has been selected to provide the Replacement Flexi Officer Cars.

Decision

To award contract for the provision of Replacement Flexi Officer Cars to the following provider:

1. Volkswagen Group United Kingdom Limited

Reasons for the decision

The procurement has secured a compliant, value for money solution that meets Surrey Fire and Rescue Service's operational requirements. The chosen supplier will provide a quality assured vehicle fleet, ensuring the resilience, reliability and availability required to support effective frontline emergency response and operational command functions across Surrey.

The procurement route followed is compliant with the Public Contracts Regulation 2015 and Procurement and Contract Standing Orders.

Alternative options considered

See Procurement Report