Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public body·Other public body·Greater London·Richmond
Official UK PPONPGTT-3583-QXLN
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Based on 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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536 awarded tenders, 466 different suppliers.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palm House Conservation Package | 9 Dec 2026 | 25d | £20,000,000 |
What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting25 procedures · 29%71 Architectural, construction, engineering12 procedures · 14%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet12 procedures · 14%73 Research and development services12 procedures · 14%38 Laboratory, optical and precision8 procedures · 9%48 Software package and information systems7 procedures · 8%45 Construction work6 procedures · 7% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services5 procedures · 6%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 85 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract92%(78 notices)
78 of 85 notices are Contract (92%).Framework8%(7 notices)
7 of 85 notices are Framework (8%).
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Limited / restricted45%(38 notices)
38 of 85 notices are Limited / restricted (45%).Direct award29%(25 notices)
25 of 85 notices are Direct award (29%).Open13%(11 notices)
11 of 85 notices are Open (13%).Route not published7%(6 notices)
6 of 85 notices are Route not published (7%).Selective6%(5 notices)
5 of 85 notices are Selective (6%).
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Based on 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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Based on 6 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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Based on 85 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Based on 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
Who wins herei
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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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| Li-Cor Biosciences Uk Ltd | 9 | 1.7% | 0 | 9 | 9 Jan 2023 |
| Impulse Engineering Limited | 7 | 1.3% | 1 | 7 | 19 Aug 2022 |
| Two Tails Productions Ltd | 5 | 0.9% | 3 | 6 | 17 Jul 2025 |
| Bakehouse Factory Ltd | 5 | 0.9% | 1 | 7 | 17 Jul 2025 |
| Elsevier B.V. | 5 | 0.9% | 1 | 5 | 8 Jan 2025 |
| Mtec Warehousing Limited | 4 | 0.7% | 3 | 4 | 11 Sept 2025 |
| Wood & Wood International Signs Ltd | 4 | 0.7% | 3 | 4 | 22 Feb 2025 |
| Radiocoms Systems Ltd | 4 | 0.7% | 2 | 4 | 18 Feb 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 4% of 536 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 466 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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Largest published awards i | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Learning centre construction | Kind & Company Ltd | — | 11 mo | £7,518,276 |
| Carbon Garden Project | CityAxis Limited | — | — | £1,400,000 † |
| RBGKEW1417 - Henry Moore Summer 2026 - Fine Art Handling, Transportation & Base Fabrication & Excavation | Mtec Warehousing Limited | — | — | £950,000 † |
| RBGKEW1496 Support & Hardware Supply (Firewalls) | KHIPU NETWORKS LIMITED | — | — | £800,000 † |
| RBGKEW1387 Payroll Services | CGI IT UK Limited | — | — | £624,000 † |
Contracts endingi
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562 of 601 contracts carry an end date, 53 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Inclusive Recruitment Training | Omni Resource Management Solutions Ltd | 28 Nov 2026 estimated | £26,100 |
| RBGKEW1256 - Membership Servicing Print & Fulfilment | Membership Plus (a division of Integrity Print Ltd) | 30 Nov 2026 | £720,000 |
| RBGKEW1499 IT Training | QA Limited | 30 Nov 2026 | £20,000 |
| RBGKEW1571Membership Growth Consultancy | The Foundation Customer Consultancy Ltd | 30 Nov 2026 | £30,000 |
| RBGKEW1490 Maintenance and repair of LNI Swiss Gas nitrogen generators | UVISON Technologies | 4 Dec 2026 | £9,676 |
| RBGKEW967 Land and Buildings Valuations | Montagu-Evans LLP | 12 Dec 2026 | £33,000 |
| GB-London: RBGKEW1181 Employee Benefits Portal | THOMSON REUTERS (PROFESSIONAL) UK LIMITED | 31 Dec 2026 | £19,712 |
| RBGKEW1118Inclusive Recruitment Training | Omni Resource Management Solutions Ltd | 31 Dec 2026 | £26,100 |
| Bespoke printed labels & equipment for the spirit, DNA & tissue collections | Computer Imprintable Label Systems Limited | 31 Dec 2026 | £28,000 |
| RBGKEW1230 - Recruitment Advertising Services | Prospectus Ltd | 1 Jan 2027 estimated | £400,000 |
Soonest 10 of 76 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 125 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| RBGKEW1567 - Electrical Maintenance ServicesRepair and maintenance services of electrical building installations | Open | 7 Oct 2026 | £4,500,000 |
| RBGKEW1571Membership Growth Consultancy | Awarded / complete | 7 Oct 2026 | — |
| Palm House Conservation PackageRefurbishment work | Planning | 2 Oct 2026 | £25,000,000 |
| RBGKEW1573 phenoTest for SPEED project | Awarded / complete | 2 Oct 2026 | — |
| Kew Wakehurst Controlled Environment FacilityInstallation services of laboratory equipment | Planning | 27 Aug 2026 | £600,000 |
| RBGKEW1455 - Catering Services - Kew GardensCatering services | Awarded / complete | 25 Aug 2026 | £100,000,000 |
| RBGKEW1530 - Catering Services WakehurstCatering services | Awarded / complete | 25 Aug 2026 | £17,000,000 |
| Learning centre construction | Awarded / complete | 29 Jun 2026 | — |
| RBGKEW1544 Media Monitoring and Media Database ServiceCommunication and multimedia software development services | Awarded / complete | 29 May 2026 | — |
| RBGKEW1539 Radios Maintenance & Support | Awarded / complete | 29 May 2026 | — |
| Bespoke printed labels & equipment for the spirit, DNA & tissue collections | Awarded / complete | 28 May 2026 | — |
| RBGKEW1513 Cacao TEA and SIRA | Awarded / complete | 28 May 2026 | — |
| RBGKEW1496 Support & Hardware Supply (Firewalls)Repair and maintenance services of security equipment | Awarded / complete | 21 Apr 2026 | — |
| RBGKEW1504 - Maintenance of Orbitrap LCMS systemsChromatographs | Awarded / complete | 17 Apr 2026 | — |
| RBGKEW1477 - Maintenance of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance SpectrometerRepair and maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 15 Apr 2026 | — |
| RBGKEW1526 - Buggy for Creative Programmes | Awarded / complete | 13 Apr 2026 | — |
| RBGKEW1503 - Analysis of Fungicides in Soil Across England - Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment Programme | Awarded / complete | 10 Apr 2026 | — |
| RBGKEW1471 - Face to Face Membership SalesBusiness services: law | Awarded / complete | 10 Apr 2026 | £280,000 |
| RBGKEW1517 - IT StorageSystem | Awarded / complete | 31 Mar 2026 | — |
| RBGKEW1536 - Millennium Seed Bank Digital Assistant Pilot | Awarded / complete | 30 Mar 2026 | — |
Search all 125 procedures for this authority →
Contracts Finder adds 475 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.
About this data
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 562 of 601 published contracts have an end date; 53 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.