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Business Travel Management Solution 2027

Buyer: Science Museum Group →

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BuyerScience Museum Group
StatusOpen
Deadline7 Sept 2026
Value£3,500,000
Published30 Jul 2026

What is being bought

The Science Museum Group (SMG) seeks a fully managed Business Travel Management Service to support all its UK and international travel requirements. The appointed Travel Management Company (TMC) will deliver compliant, cost‑effective, sustainable and data‑driven travel solutions aligned with SMG's duty‑of‑care and governance needs.

Categories

Travel management services 63516000Business travel services 79997000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
ValueAED 3,500,000
Contract periodFrom 25 Jan 2027 to 24 Jan 2030

Award criteria
Quality (85%)
Price (15%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Travel management services, Business travel servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 63. The category anchor is Travel management services (63516000); 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 631,4873 median · 16.2 average (555 of 1,487 with a bid count)3 average (641 of 1,487 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)9222 median · 22 average (1 of 92 with a bid count)6 average (1 of 92 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 requirementYes
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleSMG undertook limited informal market engagement prior to commencing this procurement. This consisted of discussions with a small number of suppliers operating in the business travel sector to better understand market capabilities and potential delivery approaches. No formal preliminary market engagement exercise was conducted and no supplier was involved in drafting the procurement documents or specification. SMG has taken steps to ensure no supplier has received an unfair advantage and that all bidders are provided with the same information throughout the procurement process.
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

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-06d792
Latest release ID072171-2026
Latest release timestampThu Jul 30 2026 12:17:18 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/072171-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-09-07T17:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-10-19T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailsThe tender must be submitted via the procurement portal (https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sciencemuseumgroup/aspx/Home) (the “Procurement Portal”).
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£3,500,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
30 Jul 2026tender072171-2026

All source data

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

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