Natural History Museum: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 23 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
56 awarded tenders, 70 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| NHM150 Western Galleries - AV Hardware Integrator | 23 Oct 2026 | 23d | £300,000 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
45 Construction work17 procedures · 28% · 1 open92 Recreational, cultural and sporting17 procedures · 28% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering15 procedures · 25%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting12 procedures · 20%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet4 procedures · 7% · 1 open48 Software package and information systems4 procedures · 7%35 Security, fire-fighting, police3 procedures · 5%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances3 procedures · 5%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 61 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 90% (55 notices)
- Framework 8% (5 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 2% (1 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Open 56% (34 notices)
- Route not published 26% (16 notices)
- Direct award 11% (7 notices)
- Limited / restricted 3% (2 notices)
- Selective 3% (2 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 23 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 17 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 61 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 18 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Bild Studios Ltd | 2 | 3.6% | 2 | 2 | 14 Sept 2026 |
| Sam Forster Associates Ltd | 2 | 3.6% | 2 | 2 | 14 Jul 2026 |
| CBRE MANAGED SERVICES LIMITED | 2 | 3.6% | 1 | 2 | 5 Dec 2025 |
| Total Support Services Ltd | 2 | 3.6% | 1 | 2 | 3 Nov 2025 |
| PCL Corporatewear Limited | 1 | 1.8% | 1 | 2 | 3 Nov 2025 |
| Conservation By Design Limited | 1 | 1.8% | 1 | 2 | 20 Aug 2026 |
| Conservation Resources (UK) Ltd | 1 | 1.8% | 1 | 2 | 20 Aug 2026 |
| BUREAU TECHNICAL INSPECTION SERVICES LIMITED | 1 | 1.8% | 1 | 1 | 25 Jul 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 11% of 56 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 70 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Soft Facilities Management Services Provider | Total Support Services Ltd | — | — | £14,180,000 † |
| Hard Facilities Management Services Provider | CBRE MANAGED SERVICES LIMITED | — | — | £12,043,194 † |
| NHM150 Western Galleries – Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health | Build Design Partnership Ltd | 18 Sept 2026 | 5.5 yrs | £719,569 ≈ £131k/yr |
| Signage Production and Installation | Eight Point Eight Limited | 3 Nov 2025 | 7 mo | £450,000 |
| Lot 4 - Origins (Life on Earth Gallery) | NISSEN RICHARDS STUDIO LIMITED | 26 Aug 2026 | 5 yrs | £448,890 ≈ £90k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 26 of 64 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Technical Adviser - Refurbishment and Roof Upgrade Design & Works - Palaeontology Building Northern Elevation | BPA Architecture | 31 Mar 2027 | £148,000 |
| Public Address and Voice Alarm Design Consultant | Avitas Global Ltd trading as RH Consulting | 30 Apr 2027 | £150,000 |
| Gallery 33 Refurbishment: Design and Consultancy Services | Studio Downie Architects LLP | 20 Jul 2027 | £222,843 |
| Gallery 33 - 3D and 2D Exhibition Design/Lead Designer | AOC Architecture Limited | 31 Jul 2027 | £159,940 |
| Gallery 33 - Immersive Experience Ideation and Production Services | THE WORKERS (INTERNATIONAL) LTD | 31 Aug 2027 | £150,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 102 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Gallery 33 Refurbishment: Building Services Consultancy | Awarded / complete | 15 Oct 2025 | — |
| Gallery 33 Refurbishment: Design and Consultancy ServicesEngineering design services | Awarded / complete | 6 Oct 2025 | £720,000 |
| NHM Collections Store Refurbishments- Architect, Principal Designer (BSA) and Sustainability services, RIBA Stages 2-7Architectural and related services | Awarded / complete | 2 Oct 2025 | £475,000 |
| 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards and Launch - ProductionEvent services | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2025 | £113,500 |
| WPY61 - Photographic Printer | Awarded / complete | 23 Jul 2025 | — |
| Due Diligence Reports FrameworkFinancial consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 22 Jul 2025 | — |
| Palaeontology Roof Project: Principal ContractorBituminous roof-covering work | Open | 7 Jul 2025 | £1,650,000 |
| DNA Sequencer Upgrade | Awarded / complete | 2 Jul 2025 | — |
| Wildlife Photographer of the Year - Principal ContractorArt gallery construction work | Awarded / complete | 20 Jun 2025 | £290,000 |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£76m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 40 award records on 29 procedures (37 to a single canonical supplier, 3 multi-supplier). 10 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 26 of 64 published contracts carry a period end; 5 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (7 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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