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CONCESSION Coach House Cafe Tender, Penlee House Gallery and Museum

Buyer: Penzance Town Council →

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BuyerPenzance Town Council
StatusAwarded
Deadline11 Jan 2026
Value£3,780,000
Published20 Feb 2026

What is being bought

The Council is seeking to appoint a Concessionaire to run a café facility for Penlee House Gallery & Museum in Penlee Park. The appointed Supplier (aka the Concessionaire) would pay a commission-based licence fee, based on percentage gross income with minimum £20,000 annual payment to operate the Café. The value of the fee will be determined through this tender exercise. A proposed commission structure is set out in the Headline Terms document. Full details around the Tender can be found in the accompanying documentation.

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statuscomplete

Comparable-procurement analytics

No usable CPV category has been published, so a comparable market set cannot yet be built.

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 regimeconcession
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
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.

Awards

CONCESSION Coach House Cafe Tender, Penlee House Gallery and Museum

Statusactive
Value£5,450,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2027

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05e163
Latest release ID015731-2026
Latest release timestampFri Feb 20 2026 14:32:37 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/086241-2025
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryNot published
Above thresholdNot published
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 valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source0
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
20 Feb 2026award, contract015731-2026
29 Dec 2025tenderUpdate086241-2025
1 Dec 2025tenderUpdate078447-2025
14 Nov 2025tenderUpdate073975-2025
14 Nov 2025tender073949-2025

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 (5 releases)
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29 Dec 2025 · 086241-2025 · tenderUpdate
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1 Dec 2025 · 078447-2025 · tenderUpdate
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14 Nov 2025 · 073975-2025 · tenderUpdate
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14 Nov 2025 · 073949-2025 · tender
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