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Civic Quarter Project - Removals and Storage Services

Buyer: Cambridge City Council →

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BuyerCambridge City Council
StatusClosed
Deadline4 Sept 2026
Value£90,000
Published11 Aug 2026

What is being bought

The Civic Quarter Project includes the refurbishment of two significant Council assets, the Guildhall and the Corn Exchange. To facilitate the refurbishment works, the Council requires a comprehensive removals, transportation, storage and reinstatement service covering a wide range of assets including heritage items, artwork, antiques, furniture, technical equipment and general operational items. The Council is seeking a supplier with demonstrable experience of managing complex decant projects, handling heritage and technical assets and providing secure, dry storage facilities with consistent environmental conditions. Accreditation with the British Association of Removers (BAR) is a mandatory requirement. The successful supplier will be responsible for planning and delivering the safe decant of items from both buildings that are required to be stored offsite whilst refurbishment works are carried out. The supplier is to ensure all items are appropriately packed, protected, catalogued where necessary, transported and stored securely, throughout the refurbishment period. Following completion of the refurbishment works, the successful supplier will be required to return, unpack and position all items within the refurbished buildings, on phased basis as directed by the Council.

Delivery location

UKH12, GB

Categories

Museum services and preservation services of historical sites and buildings 92520000Relocation services 98392000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£90,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Oct 2026 to 1 Apr 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Museum services and preservation services of historical sites and buildings, Relocation servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 92. The category anchor is Museum services and preservation services of historical sites and buildings (92520000); 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 927843 median · 23.4 average (140 of 784 with a bid count)2.6 average (160 of 784 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKH1293 median · 3 average (1 of 9 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 9 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)1275.5 median · 5.5 average (2 of 127 with a bid count)1 average (2 of 127 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 policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
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-06c0a2
Latest release ID076132-2026
Latest release timestampTue Aug 11 2026 10:29:13 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/076132-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-09-04T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-08-27T23:59:59+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://sell2.in-tend.co.uk/cambridgeshire/home
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£90,000
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
11 Aug 2026tender076132-2026
1 Jul 2026planningUpdate061808-2026
30 Jun 2026planning061460-2026

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (3 releases)
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