Workshops Management System

LFRS identified systems in use by other fire services and approached these suppliers for market research. LFRS arranged product demonstrations in March/ April as well as in July 2025 following discussions with further suppliers at the Road Transport Expo in June 2025. LFRS now wishes to open the market engagement up to the whole market and to engage with suppliers that can demonstrate their product capabilities against the following objectives: • A commercially off the shelf system that enables us to continuously drive the efficiency of our processes and maintain 100% compliance with legislation and regulation throughout its lifetime. • DVSA certified/ compliant. • Ca 180 vehicles and 200 items of firefighting equipment tracked individually. • User base of ca 15 users, including Workshops Technicians and Stores Assistants. • In line with our ICT Strategy, a "Cloud-based" software as a service (SAAS) solution. Must provide secure access to all users to perform activities via a web-based user interface from any location across a range of platforms such as LFRS-provided PC, Android/IOS Tablet or Smartphone. • An advanced security model including Single Sign On and Multifactor Authentication with user identification and management delivered via our Azure Entra ID. • The project must deliver ease of data entry and retrieval including mobile devices, produce accurate reportable data, and link across each core activity to present relevant data at the point of need. • Vehicle history, including storage of all legally required documents. • Component/ parts/ equipment records for each vehicle. • Maintenance, tax and MOT schedules for vehicles/ equipment. • Recording time and materials used. • Parts and equipment management (optional). • Reporting: Workshops performance reports, monitoring vehicle costs. • Standard inspection routines/ parts lists for defined job types. • Ability to supply and consume data, e.g. performance, to and from our Data Warehouse via supported API's. • Ability to supply and consume data, e.g. stock/parts and costs, to and from our Finance system Unit4 (formerly Agresso) via supported API's. • Migration of historic data (optional). Suppliers are invited to participate in this market engagement by requesting and submitting our questionnaire via [email protected] by 1 August 2025. All correspondence, including responses, must be in written format and sent to [email protected]. All requests for clarification or additional information will be logged and replies issued to all participants. Valid responses must contain the completed questionnaire and be submitted by the closing date. It is the provider's responsibility to ensure their response arrives by the closing date. LFRS will not be inviting any provider to host a demonstration whose proposal it is to develop a system to meet the key objectives. LFRS will not be liable or cover any costs incurred by responding to this market engagement notice or the holding of any demonstrations.

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