Official UK procurement notice
Consultancy Framework at IWM for Specialist Services
Authority: Imperial War Museum (Central government)
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionIWM is tendering for Potential Providers to cover the following support requirements for construction and property projects, via a framework agreement over the next three years (with an option to extend for a further one year):
The requirements will be split into the following framework Lots:
Lot 1
Asbestos Surveyor
Fire Strategy & Risk Assessment Consultant
Principal Designer/ CDM/ Health & Safety Advisor
Ground Contamination/ Environmental
Lot 2
Landscape Consultant
Transport Consultant
Potential Providers may bid for individual Lots or both Lots.
Potential Providers must be able to provide all of the above support requirements within a respective Lot.
- How the procedure runs: Pre Qualification Stage using the Procurement Specific Questionnaire. Shortlisted bidders invited to tender.
CPV: Environmental decontamination services · Environmental management · Environmental standards for construction · Health and safety consultancy services · Landscape architectural services · Risk or hazard assessment for construction · Support services for land transport · Support services for road transport · Urban planning and landscape architectural services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework
- Call-offs
- call-offs may be awarded directly or by further competition
- Bids received
- 14 bids on the busiest of 2 lots · 10 suppliers appointed
- Framework period
- 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs from 1 Apr 2026
Published description of the framework
Prices will be determined via rate cards provided by contractors at tender stage which will form part of the contract.
In respect of issuing tasks to contractors, IWM reserves the right to either directly award tasks to individual contractors or to undertake a mini-competition for work amongst the contractors.
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · all with a published value · same evaluation weights on every lotEvery one of these 2 lots carries the same published figure, £18,000,000: it is the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.
Lot #1AwardedRenewalceiling above
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (4)
- Technical Evaluation: 50%
- Cost: 30%
- Social Value: 10%
- Sustainability: 10%
Published award criteria (4)
- Technical Evaluation
- Cost
- Sustainability
- Social Value
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “Consultancy Framework at IWM for Specialist Services” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract: call-offs may be direct or by further competition.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 1 Sept 2025, 10:05 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Mar 2026, 12:41 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 2 Feb 2026
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-052684- Latest notice
- Contract award notice (UK6)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-059101Find a Tender
- How it runs
Pre Qualification Stage using the Procurement Specific Questionnaire. Shortlisted bidders invited to tender.
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 10 Oct 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
1 Sept 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 7 dates- Tender notice published1 Sept 2025, 10:05 BST
- Admission / appointment period ends377 days ago · period end, not a bid countdown10 Oct 2025, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by261 days ago2 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Assessment summaries sent213 days ago23 Mar 2026
- Latest notice published213 days ago23 Mar 2026, 12:41 GMT
- Contract starts204 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
- Standstill ends203 days ago1 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
Notice history
7 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 1 Sept 2025- Tender notice published1 Sept 2025, 10:05 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published3 Sept 2025, 17:43 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published9 Sept 2025, 10:37 BSTUK4
- Deadline moved to 10 Oct 2025, 12:00 BST9 Sept 2025, 10:37 BST+8 days · was 2 Oct 2025, 12:00 BST
- Contract award notice published23 Mar 2026, 12:41 GMTUK6
- Status changed to complete23 Mar 2026, 12:41 GMT
- Contract signature expected9 Apr 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Published amendments (2)
No changes within the notice itself, but please note that the original PSQ that could be downloaded between 01/09/2025 and 03/09/2025 has now been replaced, due to one amendment. This has been to add clarity regarding the SME Status question within the PSQ. It has now been amended to clarify that answers to that question are Information Only.
The Tender submission deadline has been amended to 10 October 2025, 12:00pm. This has meant amendments to some of the other dates within the procurement timetable, which can be seen within the new updated PSQ (as mentioned below). The PSQ that could be downloaded between 03/09/2025 and 09/09/2025 has now been replaced, due to adding questions regarding Payments in Contracts and Carbon Reduction, r…
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-09: 1 release · 1 Sept 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast£4,500,000 is the framework's published maximum, restated by the publisher on 2 award rows. It is one ceiling, not 2 separate sums, and no share per lot is published; those rows read “ceiling above”.
| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lot 1 · IWM is tendering for Potential Providers to cover the following support requirements…1 award | |||
| Buro Happold Ltd, RSK Environment Limited, Ramboll UK Limited, Riverside Environmental ServicesSME, Tetra TechConsultancy Framework at IWM for Specialist Services - Lot 19 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2029 | ceiling above | 23 Mar 2026standstill to 1 Apr 2026 | Standstill |
| Lot 2 · IWM is tendering for Potential Providers to cover the following support requirements…1 award | |||
| AECOM LIMITED, Cornwall Waste Needs Assessment, HTA Design LLPSME, LAYER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LIMITEDSME, Norman Rourke PrymeSME, Tetra TechConsultancy Framework at IWM for Specialist Services - Lot 29 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2029 | ceiling above | 23 Mar 2026standstill to 1 Apr 2026 | Standstill |
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · IWM is tendering for Potential Providers to cover the following support requirements… | 5final-stage tenders | 1 | 0 | — |
| 2 · IWM is tendering for Potential Providers to cover the following support requirements… | 14final-stage tenders | 7 | 0 | — |
Who bid
- wonTetra Tech Limited · Yorkshire and the Humber · all lots
- wonBURO HAPPOLD LIMITED · South West England · 1
- wonRSK ENVIRONMENT LIMITED · Scotland · all lots
- wonRIVERSIDE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES LIMITEDSME · North West England · 1
- wonRAMBOLL UK LIMITED · Greater London · 1
- wonNorman Rourke Pryme LimitedSME · Greater London · 2
- wonSLR CONSULTING LIMITED · Greater London · 2
- wonLAYER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LIMITEDSME · North West England · 2
- wonHTA DESIGN LLPSME · Greater London · 2
- wonAECOM LIMITED · Greater London · 2
- did not winBUILDING DESIGN PARTNERSHIP LIMITED · North West England · 2
- did not winALAN BAXTER LIMITEDSME · Greater London · 2
- did not winB B UK STUDIO LIMITED · Greater London · 2
- did not winLAND USE CONSULTANTS LIMITED · Greater London · 2
- did not winVELOCITY TRANSPORT PLANNING LTD · Greater London · 2
- did not winATKINSRÉALIS PPS LIMITED · South East England · 2
- did not winOUTERSPACE (URBAN DESIGN) LTD. · Greater London · 2
Bidders as named on the Procurement Act 2023 award notice. “Won” means the bidder holds an award on this notice.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Framework contractors & participating bidders
17 commercial parties on the notice · 10 awarded- AECOM LIMITEDFramework contractor
- ALAN BAXTER LIMITEDBidder / tenderer
- ATKINSRÉALIS PPS LIMITEDBidder / tenderer
- B B UK STUDIO LIMITEDBidder / tenderer
- BUILDING DESIGN PARTNERSHIP LIMITEDBidder / tenderer
- BURO HAPPOLD LIMITEDFramework contractor
- HTA DESIGN LLPFramework contractor
- LAND USE CONSULTANTS LIMITEDBidder / tenderer
- LAYER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LIMITEDFramework contractor
- Norman Rourke Pryme LimitedFramework contractor
Show 7 more suppliers
- OUTERSPACE (URBAN DESIGN) LTD.Bidder / tenderer
- RAMBOLL UK LIMITEDFramework contractor
- RIVERSIDE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES LIMITEDFramework contractor
- RSK ENVIRONMENT LIMITEDFramework contractor
- SLR CONSULTING LIMITEDFramework contractor
- Tetra Tech LimitedFramework contractor
- VELOCITY TRANSPORT PLANNING LTDBidder / tenderer
Official documents & specifications (5)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender