Introducing LFB

June 2012

About London • The London Fire and Emergency

Planning Authority’s 17 members run LFB.

• We are governed by the Mayor of London who appoints our members.

• Our annual budget is £430 million, and we employ some 7,000 people, (5,800 operational staff)

• We cover some the whole of the Greater London (1587km2) and its 7.5 million residents as well as those who work in, or visit the city.

• We are the worlds third largest brigade.

Our operations• We cover largely urban areas, including

major industrial sites.

• We have 113 fire stations, including one on the river Thames, operated 24 hrs by full time fire fighters.

• Each station has 4 watches: 2 days/ 2 nights on a 11/13 hr shift pattern.

• 169 appliances, and 102 specialist vehicles including those for responding to terrorist attacks or other catastrophic emergencies.

• ~ 250,000 emergency calls, attend ~140,000 emergencies, including 14,000 serious fires, 6,500 fires in the home.

• We provide emergency fire and rescue services, Community safety (prevention), and fire safety regulation (protection).

Work Package 2:

The Case for Innovative ProcurementJune 2012

Work package aims

Initial research to inform WP4:

• identify environmental impacts of frontline fire appliances

• quantify those impacts for comparison and prioritisation

• identify potential cost implications.

Further definition of impacts e.g. air quality, climate change, resource use and toxicity to:

• understand opportunities for reducing them

• operational constraints of the fire services related to those opportunities

• Clarify priorities to inform the areas of focus for specification development and market engagement in WP4

Activitiesmonths 1-6 Needs Assessment

• Establish working group of expert advisors to the project

• Identify key environmental impacts: input from partners and expert advisors.

months 3-12 Research

• Research good practice for environmental innovation, including surveys.

• Risk assess good practice identified in other markets for operational emergency response requirements.

• Review survey results and undertake 2 study visits to refine the research findings in preparation for a workshop.

• Develop an interim report of findings to inform the consultation.

Activities

Step 3 (months 9-15) Consultation and reporting

•Workshop of expert advisors (6 advisors) to review good practice, risk assessment to select priorities to inform WP4.

•Develop a high level specification based on findings to inform WP4.

Outputs:

2-1 Report summarising needs assessment, findings on good practice & key areas of focus (Month 15 – updated Month 25)

2-2 presentation at the final conference (Month 36)

Expert Advisors

Funding for up to 6 ‘expert advisors’ to attend workshops:

Expert Advisor organisations

Dublin Fire Brigade confirmed participation

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service

confirmed participation

Fire Service, Torun, Poland confirmed participation

Fire Service, Lille, France unconfirmed

Fire Service in Hungary unconfirmed

Stockholm County Council declined

Other suggestions?

Action Plan

MONTH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 35

WP2THE CASE FOR INNOVATION

                               

 2-1 Needs Assessment

                               

  2-2 Research               V   V            

 2-3 Consultation and reporting

                    W       R   R

Work Package 3:

Risk Management

June 2012

Work package aims

To identify how to undertake early market engagement to support innovation within the scope of different types of contracting arrangements and the Procurement Directives.

• Review and agree market engagement methods

• Consider innovation and state aid

• Consider different types of service contracts e.g. lease or outright purchase

Activities

months 1- 6 Market engagement

• Research market engagement techniques, agree methods of engagement to be used in WP4.

• Identify service contracts to use as examples for review on barriers to innovation.

• Provision of a legal framework for undertaking market engagement.

• Workshop for partners to provide understanding of the legal framework.

months 1-12 Research

• Identify relevant case studies for the gu.

• Identify case law examples to include in the guidance.

Activities

months 6-12 Guidance and reporting

• Guidance on market engagement methods used, perceived issues and legal advice provided to overcome barriers to innovation.

Months 33-36 Guidance update

• Update to guidance based on the experience of the project through work packages 4 and 5.

 

Outputs

Outputs

3-1 Advice to project partners to support Work Package 5 – Procurement (Month 13)

3-2 Guidance for public procurers on the legal aspects of (Month 12, update Month 35):

• Market engagement and innovation

• Procuring innovation within state aid rules

• Developing a service contract to support innovation

• supported by relevant case studies

• supported by examples from the project

3-3 A presentation of the findings at the final conference (Month 36)

Action Plan

MONTH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910

11

12

13

1415

16

33

34

35

36

WP3

RISK MANAGEMENT                                

 3-1 Market engagement

                               

  3-2 Research             W                  

 3-3 Guidance and reporting

                      R        

  3-4 Guidance Update                                 R