Lot 1
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Buyer: Hartlepool Borough Council →
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Hartlepool Borough Council (HBC) Museum and Gallery Team are seeking a qualified and experienced brand consultant / agency as part of the 'Tides of Change: Revitalising the Museum of Hartlepool and PS Wingfield Castle' project. The agency will, using primary and secondary market research and consultation, prepare a plan for the systematic development of the brand in line with the business objectives. Tenderers are required to provide a fee proposal for a brand strategy. The strategy should be developed with key target markets in mind. These will include: • Local Residents • Day Visitors from across Tees Valley • Tourists beyond an hour drive time • Educational Visits • Special Interest Groups
UKC11, GB
No lot description published.
| Item | Category | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Research and development consultancy services | Not published |
Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 73. The category anchor is Research and development consultancy services (73200000); 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 set | Procedures | Reported bids per procedure | Named award suppliers | Price evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market: CPV division 73 | 1,144 | 2.5 median · 31.3 average (250 of 1,144 with a bid count) | 2.8 average (276 of 1,144 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
| Same buyer | 0 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Delivery region: UKC11 | 0 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Similar published value (0.5×–2×) | 194 | Not published | Not published | 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.
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.
No planning milestones published.
No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.
Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.
| OCID | ocds-h6vhtk-05d856 |
|---|---|
| Latest release ID | 070208-2025 |
| Latest release timestamp | Fri Oct 31 2025 15:54:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Source | find-a-tender |
| Official notice URL | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070208-2025 |
| Tender status | active |
| Procurement method | open |
| Procurement method details | Below threshold - open competition |
| Main procurement category | services |
| Above threshold | No |
| Legal basis | 2023/54 |
| Tender period: start | Not published |
| Tender period: end | 2025-11-24T14:00:00Z |
| Expression of interest deadline | Not published |
| Enquiry deadline | Not published |
| Award period: start | Not published |
| Award period: end | Not published |
| Submission method details | https://open-uk.org |
| Submission languages | Not published |
| Electronic catalogue policy | Not published |
| Total tender value | £35,000 |
| Tender lots in source | 1 |
| Tender items in source | 1 |
| Tender documents in source | 1 |
| Awards in latest release | 0 |
| Contracts in latest release | 0 |
| Parties in latest release | 1 |
| Date | Event | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 31 Oct 2025 | tender | 070208-2025 |
Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.
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