Security consultancy

Security consultancy gives your project threat-led advice before you spend on products: risk review, site surveys, rating selection and written specifications. ArxBridge consultants work across the UK.

• Threat-ledRatings matched to risk
• Independent adviceSpecification before product
• Martyn’s Law readyGuidance on the 2025 Act
• Tender supportSchedules and clauses

What the security consultancy service includes

Consultancy is the thinking before the buying. We review the threat against your building, survey what is there, and write down exactly what rating each element needs. That written specification then controls everything downstream: design, procurement, installation and maintenance.

• Threat and risk review: what threatens the site, and how credible each threat is.
• Site security survey: construction, openings, sight lines, existing measures.
• Product and rating selection: the right standard and class for each element.
• Specification writing: tender-ready clauses, schedules and drawings mark-ups.
• Martyn’s Law gap review: what the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 means for your premises.
• Tender evaluation support: checking bids against the specification on equal terms.

Specify before you buy. The cheapest time to get security right is on paper. A clear specification stops overbuying where the threat is low and stops gaps where it is not.

Assessment options

Engagements range from a single survey to full specification authorship. The table shows the common forms.

The security consultancy process

1. Brief. You tell us the building, the concern and the programme.
2. Survey. We visit, measure and photograph the relevant areas.
3. Assessment. We match threats to standards: LPS 1175, EN 1522, ISO 16933, PAS 68 and others.
4. Recommendations. You receive a rating schedule: each element, its standard, its class.
5. Specification. We write the tender specification so bids can be compared fairly.
6. Tender support. We review returns and flag where bids depart from the specification.

What you receive from security consultancy

Every engagement ends with documents you can keep and use: the survey findings, the rating schedule, specification clauses and schedules in a format your procurement team can issue, and drawings mark-ups where needed. The specification belongs to you, and you are free to tender it to any supplier.

When you need security consultancy

Bring us in before the design freezes on a new build, when the security package is still cheap to change. On existing buildings, consultancy pays for itself at refurbishment, after an incident, or when insurance or the board asks for a documented position. Premises preparing for Martyn’s Law duties should review their physical measures during the implementation period, well before enforcement begins.

Where security consultancy applies

Consultancy covers the whole product range: ballistic protection, forced-entry rated doors and windows, blast protection, perimeter and HVM and specialist shielding. We also advise on the standards themselves; see LPS 1175, ballistic ratings, vehicle impact ratings and Martyn’s Law.

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