Give customers confidence in your fire safety work with our fire detection and fire alarm systems scheme.
If you work in the fire safety market, we can help you demonstrate your competence with our route to BAFE certification.
The BAFE Approval Schemes have set the industry standards for the fire protection industry for 25 years.
The BAFE Fire Detection and Fire Alarm Systems Scheme (BAFE SP203-1) consists of a four-part modular scheme, covering the work associated with fire detection and fire alarm systems:
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design
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installation
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commissioning and handover
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maintenance
The advantage for your business? You can choose to be assessed only in the areas relevant to your work.
Pricing is based on the number of modules you choose, for more information review the key documents.
Scheme requirements
BAFE's SP203-1 scheme objective is to provide a means by which fire protection system users and regulatory authorities can be confident that the companies providing fire alarm systems, have processes in place to effectively undertake such activities within their defined scope of work.
The BAFE SP203-1 scheme document specifies the conditions to be met by certificated organisations.
Application fee (non refundable) | Fee | VAT | Total |
| Application review fee for each address requiring assessment (e.g. head office and each contracting branch) | £95 | £19 | £114 |
| One module | £870 | £174 | £1,044 |
| Two modules or more* | £1,835 | £367 | £2,202 |
Surveillance | Fee | VAT | Total |
| In the first year surveillance will be completed after 6 months and then annually thereafter (fee becomes due on the anniversary of certification) | |||
| One module | £965 | £193 | £1,158 |
| Two modules or more* | £1,930 | £386 | £2,316 |
| BAFE annual license fee (license fee in non-refundable as the whole fee is transferred to BAFE) | £270 | £54 | £324 |
*When applied for at the same time
Note: Assessment = approx 3 hrs, and multiples thereof i.e. 2x assessment = approx 6 hrs.
Charges |
Fee |
VAT |
Total |
| Administrative fees (for example change of company details, not involving change of ownership) | £65 | £13 | £78 |
| Change of Lead individual, additional lead individual (fee does not include an additional assessment) | £65 | £13 | £78 |
| Pre-assessment | £965 | £193 | £1,158 |
| Additional 2x assessment (or multiples of) | £965 | £193 | £1,158 |
| Modular Certificate unique identification reference | £1 | £0.20 | £1.20 |
| Compliance Certificate unique identification reference (including payment to BAFE) | £10 | £2 | £12 |
Rescheduling fee |
Fee |
VAT |
Total |
| Rescheduling of an assessment with 2 or less days notice (per assessment) | £730 | £146 | £876 |
| Rescheduling of scheduled 2x assessment with more than 2 and less than 21 days notice (or multiples of) | £505 | £101 | £606 |
| Void fee for failure to be present or available for assessment when the assessor has attended at the scheduled time and date and no previous communication has been recieved to reschedule the assessment (for each assessment). | £485 | £97 | £582 |