Lone Worker Safety and Protection
- Buyer
- Procurement for Housing
- Value
- £20,000,000
- Closes
- 27 November 2026
- Where
- Birchwood, the North West
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Procurement for Housing, a buying group for social landlords across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, is setting up a framework (a pre-approved list of suppliers) for lone worker protection. This covers personal alarm devices and phone apps that alert a monitoring centre if staff working alone are in danger or injured, plus the monitoring service itself. Housing organisations can then buy from the approved suppliers without running their own tender.
What the buyer wants
• Supply lone worker devices and apps, including GPS location, man-down (fall detection) features, smart watches and SIM cards • Run or provide access to a 24/7 alarm receiving centre, accredited to BS 8484:2016 or BS EN 50518:2019, with trained responders who assess and act on alarms • Offer 30-day device trials (up to 10 devices), portal access, and full implementation support including delivery, set-up and a dedicated contact for members across the UK
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
The requirement for a BS 8484 or BS EN 50518 accredited alarm receiving centre with a 120-minute business continuity commitment, plus the ability to serve 900+ members nationally, would rule out most small businesses unless they partner with an established monitoring provider.
How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
More open tenders from Procurement for Housing
- Social Housing Emerging Disrupters 6, Procurement for Housing, £250,000,000, closes 17 November 2026
Similar open security contracts
- Housing and Estates Security Services, Great Places Housing Group, £3,034,167, closes 16 November 2026
- Lone Worker and Tracker Services, Procurement Assist Limited c/o Integrated Facilities Management Bolton Ltd (iFM Bolton), £50,000,000, closes 31 May 2029
- 003708 - Provision of Manned Security Guard Services at NETPark, Durham County Council, £395,000, closes 28 October 2026
- 616_27 Personal Safety and Security Equipment, Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO, £1,416,667, closes 28 October 2026
- Lone Worker Safety Solution for Adult Care & Wellbeing Services, Sheffield City Council, £35,000, closes 29 October 2026
- Exeter Foyer Security, Stonewater Limited, £320,000, closes 2 November 2026
Check whether your business could win this, free
Get a plain-English bid plan for this tender with the bid coach