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planningFind a Tender · planning
BuyerThe Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
Value£180,000
Published18 Mar 2025

What is being bought

The Barbican Centre is an arts centre in Central London. It is a major public building with a concert hall, theatre, art gallery and cinemas. We are looking to procure a point-of-sale system for our bars and cafes, and software to support the growth of a loyalty programme. We will consider standalone POS solutions, standalone loyalty solutions, single integrated solutions that provides both, or partnerships where a lead vendor offers a partner’s service under a single contract. Across our site we have 25 fixed sales points across 10 permanent bars and cafes, with 17 moveable sales points. In total the turnover of our bars and cafes is around £5 million. At busy times we may need to serve around up to 3000 audience members in 20-minute windows, for example during intervals. Separately, we want to encourage customers to use the full range of services we offer when they visit, including ticketed and free events, our bars and cafes and our gift shop. We also want to give people an incentive to identify themselves at points of sale so that we can start learning more about the way our audiences behave. We are looking to purchase a flexible loyalty solution that would support a flexible set of loyalty-based offers that could be delivered at points of sale powered not just by the bars POS but by Spektrix, our ticketing software, and Shopify, our shop software.

Delivery location

UKI, GB

Categories

Point of sale (POS) software package 48110000Point of sale (POS) software development services 72212110

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 1 Jul 2025 to 30 Jun 2028

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Point of sale (POS) software package, Point of sale (POS) software development servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 48. The category anchor is Point of sale (POS) software package (48110000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 486,8361 median · 9.6 average (2,488 of 6,836 with a bid count)1.7 average (2,927 of 6,836 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer6Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKI4421 median · 8.8 average (159 of 442 with a bid count)1.9 average (191 of 442 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)4093 median · 3 average (1 of 409 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 409 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
The Barbican Centre is an arts centre in Central London. It is a major public building with a concert hall, theatre, art gallery and cinemas. We are looking to procure a point-of-sale system for our bars and cafes, and software to support the growth of a loyalty programme. We will consider standalone POS solutions, standalone loyalty solutions, single integrated solutions that provides both, or partnerships where a lead vendor offers a partner’s service under a single contract. Across our site we have 25 fixed sales points across 10 permanent bars and cafes, with 17 moveable sales points. In total the turnover of our bars and cafes is around £5 million. At busy times we may need to serve around up to 3000 audience members in 20-minute windows, for example during intervals. Separately, we want to encourage customers to use the full range of services we offer when they visit, including ticketed and free events, our bars and cafes and our gift shop. We also want to give people an incentive to identify themselves at points of sale so that we can start learning more about the way our audiences behave. We are looking to purchase a flexible loyalty solution that would support a flexible set of loyalty-based offers that could be delivered at points of sale powered not just by the bars POS but by Spektrix, our ticketing software, and Shopify, our shop software.engagement2 Apr 2025scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04eebb
Latest release ID010016-2025
Latest release timestampTue Mar 18 2025 16:54:27 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£180,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
18 Mar 2025planning010016-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
18 Mar 2025 · 010016-2025 · planning
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