The Board and Trustees of the Natural History Museum: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Greater London·London
Find a Tender organisation id133523Websitenhm.ac.uk ↗
Open now0no live noticesNotices, last 12 months0-100% vs prior 12 months (2)Contracts ending ≤18 months1none within 6 monthsPublished award value, 24m£100mnet · on 2 of 2 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 100%How they buy
Last 24 months · 2 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
- Contract 100% (2 notices)
Procedure route
- Limited / restricted 50% (1 notices)
- Route not published 50% (1 notices)
Who wins here
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson James Ltd | 2 | 100% | 2 | 2 | 14 Feb 2025 |
2 awarded procedures across 1 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
Published award value (24m)£100mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 2 of 2 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%. Not spend and not a budget: notices sometimes republish a framework total or a mis-scaled figure — the largest rows are listed below so you can check.
| Largest published awards | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Museum Security Consortium | Wilson James Ltd | — | 1 yrs | £87,617,430 † ≈ £88m/yr |
| Museum Security Consortium | Wilson James Ltd | — | — | £12,150,514 † |
Contracts ending
Published end dates only · 1 of 2 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum Security Consortium | Wilson James Ltd, Wilson James Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £87,617,430 |
Recent procedures
Latest 2 of 2 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum Security ConsortiumSecurity services | Awarded / complete | 20 Dec 2024 | — |
| Museum Security ConsortiumSecurity services | Not published | 14 Feb 2025 | — |
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.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 2 award records on 2 procedures (2 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). Typical award uses single-supplier VAT-exclusive GBP values below £5bn, excludes framework/DPS ceilings and — as a heuristic for republished framework totals — any amount repeated three or more times inside this authority’s 24-month awards; 2 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts (per lot, contested notices only, PA 2023 final-stage tenders where published), deadline-to-award and amendments come from the nightly buyer analytics row (v8, award-identity grain). Evidence tiers: robust ≥5, moderate 3–4, indicative 1–2.
- Contract end dates: 1 of 2 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.