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Olympic organisers are racing to make the glass across 26 Olympic venues safe ahead of this summer鈥檚 games.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) is set to award a contract worth millions of pounds to a firm to apply anti-shatter film (ASF) to the windows and other glass across 26 Olympic venues in a bid to ensure the glass is made safe in the event of an explosion during this summer鈥檚 Olympics.

The contract, which was put to the market last month, stipulates that the work will involve applying ASF to 鈥渁pproximately 26 venues covering approximately 75,000m2鈥� of glass, which equates to around ten Olympic size football pitches.

The contract states that the commencement of the works must begin in May, ahead of the Games opening at the end of July, with the removal of the ASF to be completed by September. It stresses that 鈥渂idders must be certain that they can comply with these timelines before responding鈥�.

Locog would not comment on the value of the contract, but a source familiar with the tender said it was worth up to 拢2m.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a massive job and they鈥檝e left very little time to do it. There鈥檚 a feeling that it鈥檚 all very last minute and hasn鈥檛 been properly thought through,鈥� the source said.

George Linsley, a glass and glazing consultant, said ASF was necessary to ensure that glass did not become lethal in the event of an explosion. 鈥淚t鈥檚 definitely needed. It鈥檚 something that has to be done and it wouldn鈥檛 really be safe without it,鈥� he said.

He said the kind of glass used across the Olympic venues, including clear, annealed, toughened and laminated, could all pose a serious hazard in an explosion.

鈥淓ven toughened safety glass is potentially dangerous. In an explosion it would break into a hail of particles that could be lethal,鈥� he said.

鈥淟aminated glass would explode out of its frame and fly across the room.鈥�

He said Locog had left 鈥渓ittle time鈥� for a job of the size required to be completed. 鈥淚deally you want to assess each building and the risks and determine the possible direction of an explosion,鈥� he said.

A Locog spokeswoman denied that the move to secure the glass across the Games venues was rushed and the procurement was 鈥渋n line with our overall programme plan鈥�.

She said: 鈥淲e are not installing late in the day, there is a big overall construction programme in the Olympic Park and it was always planned to install at this stage.鈥�

鈥淭here is a huge variety of venues and buildings each will be surveyed to ascertain where ASF needs to be installed. 鈥�

The move to secure the glass across the venues comes after the Committee of Public Accounts this month slammed the 鈥渟taggering鈥� increase in security spending by LOCOG, which the committee said had in part lead to the expected cost of staging the Games to rise to 拢11bn, which is 拢1.7bn over budget.

The committee said Locog鈥檚 original estimate for the number of security guards in and around the venues of 10,000 was a 鈥渇inger in the air estimate鈥� and that had now more than doubled to 23,700. This meant security costs had risen from 拢282m to 拢553m.