Official UK procurement notice
Huddersfield Museum & Art Gallery - Exhibition Design and Build
Authority: Kirklees Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionKirklees Council is embarking on the development of a new Museum and Art Gallery in Huddersfield, a flagship component of 'Our Cultural Heart' (OCH) a transformative town centre regeneration programme supported by significant capital investment. The broader construction initiative, currently entering RIBA Stage 4, will see the extension and full refurbishment of the 1937 Central Library & Art Gallery building, reimagined as the future Museum & Art Gallery of Huddersfield.
As part of its ambitions under the 'Our Cultural Heart' (OCH) programme Home, Kirklees Council is seeking market feedback as part of its preparations for a procurement opportunity to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced organisation to deliver the design and fit out of the exhibition and gallery spaces within the new Huddersfield Museum & Art Gallery. The Vision for the Museum & Art Gallery is set out in the Pre-Market Engagement document available on the YORtender portal.
To support the progression of the procurement, the Council would like to gain information from the market related to the potential procurement exercise. Suppliers are therefore invited to consider the programme requirements detailed in this document and complete the attached questionnaire to provide feedback on the proposed approach and to support the Council further in understanding market appetite.
CPV: Art gallery construction work · Construction work for art and cultural buildings · Exhibition centre construction work · Museum construction work · Museum-exhibition services · Specialty design services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 24 Oct 2025, 13:25 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Oct 2025, 13:25 BST
- Authority reference
KMCCD-049- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-068206- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d369Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Oct 2025 → 28 Aug 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published369 days ago24 Oct 2025, 13:25 BST
- Market engagement348 days ago14 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Kirklees Council are seeking market feedback on the upcoming Huddersfield Museum & Art Gallery - Exhibition Design and Build opportunity. The Council wish to engage with the market via a market feedback questionnaire.
Responses to this Preliminary Market Engagement are required by 12noon on Friday 14th November 2025.
Organisations are required to access and respond to the Preliminary Market Engagement document. This can be accessed via the Council's tendering portal - yortender.eu-supply.com ↗
Potential respondents can find the market engagement opportunity under the YORTender reference - 104637.
- Contract starts62 days ago28 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Oct 2025, 13:25 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender