Who won: Estates: Building Management System (BMS) Maintenance

A services contract from University of St Andrews. Below: what it involves and how to write a winning bid for it.

Buyer

University of St Andrews

Published

10 September 2026

About this contract

The University of St Andrews is seeking tenders from Siemens Approved Partners for a managed maintenance service of the Building Management System (BMS) for the campus, which must include a 24 / 7 / 365 on-call reactive support facility. The university is seeking to build a close working relationship with a specialist BMS maintenance provider. The BMS is a Desigo CC system with a distributed architecture managed within the University Data Centre, consisting of a management server, two distributed servers, and two Front End Processors (FEPs). The system comprises over 34,000 points across over a hundred sites.

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