Provision of Training Course Places For Operational Firefighters

The Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service provides fire fighting, rescue, fire safety and other related services within the County of Berkshire.

The Service has an establishment of 454 operational staff including 66 Retained Duty System staff and 37 Control Room personnel; including non-uniformed personnel the total head count is 635.

Our workforce development is an integral part of the strategic planning process to ensure that our staff are suitably trained and developed for their roles.

The majority of our staff work in operational roles and we provide a full range of courses, including working at height, fire compartment behaviour, fire investigation, blue light and specialist vehicle driver training, hazardous materials, building regulations, incident command and management qualifications, together with specialist training for roles such as water and animal rescue.

The Authority has its own training centre with capability to undertake some essential training however there are a number of key training courses that we rely on specialist training providers to deliver.

This ITT seeks proposals to provide places on open courses on a call off basis.

This Tender is divided into Lots which represent the various categories of training undertaken by operational staff.

Bidders can tender for any number of lots.