Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public body·Central government·South East England·Sussex,
Official UK PPONPGTT-3583-QXLN
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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 10 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.
100 awarded tenders, 124 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.
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting13 procedures · 15%71 Architectural, construction, engineering6 procedures · 7%45 Construction work5 procedures · 6%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet5 procedures · 6%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting4 procedures · 5%38 Laboratory, optical and precision3 procedures · 4%50 Repair and maintenance services3 procedures · 4%55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services3 procedures · 4%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 · 85 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 92% (78 notices)
- Framework 8% (7 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.
- Limited / restricted 44% (37 notices)
- Direct award 28% (24 notices)
- Open 18% (15 notices)
- Route not published 6% (5 notices)
- Selective 5% (4 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 10 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 6 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 85 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 6 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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| THE FIELDS CARE HOME | 4 | 4% | 4 | 4 | 3 Jul 2025 |
| Two Tails Productions Ltd | 4 | 4% | 3 | 5 | 30 Mar 2026 |
| Mtec Warehousing Limited | 4 | 4% | 3 | 4 | 2 Feb 2026 |
| Skellon Superfold Limited T/A Skellon Studio | 2 | 2% | 2 | 2 | 30 Mar 2026 |
| DJS Research Ltd | 2 | 2% | 2 | 2 | 4 Dec 2025 |
| QA Limited | 2 | 2% | 2 | 2 | 22 Dec 2025 |
| Edinburgh Genetics Limited | 2 | 2% | 2 | 2 | 25 Nov 2025 |
| Bakehouse Factory Ltd | 2 | 2% | 1 | 4 | 17 Jul 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 12% of 100 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 124 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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| RBGKEW1297 - Learning Centre | Jerram Falkus Construction Ltd | — | — | £8,490,000 † |
| Carbon Garden Project | CityAxis Limited | — | — | £1,400,000 † |
| RBGKEW1362 - Kew magazine | CPL One ltd | — | — | £984,000 † |
| 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 † |
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 · 43 of 135 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| RBGKEW1440 Illumina Sequencing of fungal amplicons | Dalhousie University | 4 Oct 2026 | £50,000 |
| RBGKEW1483 Legacy Proposition Development | Legacy Futures | 31 Oct 2026 | £36,000 |
| RBGKEW1487 High Magnification Stereomicroscope | Leica Microsystems (UK) Ltd | 31 Oct 2026 | £15,500 |
| RBGKEW1499 IT Training | QA Limited | 30 Nov 2026 | £20,000 |
| RBGKEW1490 Maintenance and repair of LNI Swiss Gas nitrogen generators | UVISON Technologies | 4 Dec 2026 | £9,676 |
| Bespoke printed labels & equipment for the spirit, DNA & tissue collections | Computer Imprintable Label Systems Limited | 31 Dec 2026 | £28,000 |
| RBGKEW1117 Media Buying Agency Framework Wakehurst | Ground Up Media LTD | 31 Jan 2027 | £100,000 |
| RBGKEW1418-02 - Henry Moore Family Trail | Two Tails Productions Ltd | 28 Feb 2027 | £45,000 |
| RBGKEW1460 Wakehurst Ecosystem Observatory Met Grade Weather Station | Campbell Scientific Limited | 31 Mar 2027 | £21,063 |
| RBGKEW1531 - Email Marketing System | Dotdigital EMEA Limited | 31 Mar 2027 | £70,000 |
Soonest 10 of 19 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 121 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£134m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 84 award records on 77 procedures (81 to a single canonical supplier, 3 multi-supplier). 65 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: 43 of 135 published contracts carry a period end; 19 end within 18 months, 8 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (22 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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