Official UK procurement notice
ROG First Light Exhibitions Scenic Engineering Model Contractor
Authority: ROG First Light Exhibitions Scenic Engineering Model Contractor (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis procurement exercise is to secure a Scenic Engineering Model Contractor to deliver scenic and engineered models across various exhibitions and displays across the Royal Observatory Greenwich site, as part of the ROG First Light Project.
The Scenic Engineering Model Contractor will be responsible for the development, engineering, fabrication, installation and commissioning of props, models and engineered kinetic sculptures in various materials and finish designs in scenic paint finishes. These will appear in a range of internal as well as external locations. The Contractor's responsibilities will include elements of Contractor Design as well as coordination with exhibition designers and other contractors, both off-site and on-site.
This will be a two-stage procurement process including a PSQ process from which contractors will be shortlisted. Shortlisted contractors will be invited to Tender. Contractors will be invited to visit site. Full details of the procurement procedure can be found in the procurement documentation.
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How the procedure runs: Royal Museums Greenwich are inviting contractors to participate in a procurement to deliver scenic and engineered models for a suite of new Royal Observatory Greenwich exhibitions, as part of the ROG First Light Project. This will be a two-stage procurement process including a PSQ process from which contractors will be shortlisted. more…
Shortlisted contractors will be invited to Tender. Contractors will be invited to visit site. Full details of the procurement procedure can be found in the procurement documentation.
CPV: Museum-exhibition services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£135,000
- Value
- £135,000 exc. VAT · £162,000 inc. VAT
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 (2)
- Technical — 60%
- Commercial — 40%
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How ROG First Light Exhibitions Scenic Engineering Model Contractor buys Museum services and preservation services of historical sites and buildings (CPV 9252) — and who usually turns up
ROG First Light Exhibitions Scenic Engineering Model Contractor’s own published record, next to the Greater London market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Museum services and preservation services of historical sites and buildings (CPV 9252) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
ROG First Light Exhibitions Scenic Engineering Model Contractor
contract notices in 36 months: 12 in CPV 9252 · 12 in division 92 · 32 in all categories (1 without competition · 3 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 5 lots. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 1) and 3 from older notices (bids received, middle 5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 5 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 3 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 2 notices. Small sample.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 31 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 9252), last 36 months: 12 notices.
Greater London · Museum services and preservation services of historical sites and buildings (CPV 9252)
contract notices delivered in Greater London in 36 months: 49 in CPV 9252 (42 competed, 6 route not published) · 191 in division 92 (155 competed, 23 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 9252), last 36 months: 20 lots. 16 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 5) and 4 from older notices (bids received, middle 5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 9252), last 36 months: 20 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 9252), last 36 months: 14 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 9252), last 36 months: 13 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 9252), last 36 months: 19 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 9252), last 36 months: 15 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on 3 lots, so only the direction is shown, not a pound figure.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
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
- Open for expressions of interest
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Oct 2026, 13:25 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 13:25 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 25 May 2027, 23:59 BST
- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077fbbFind a Tender
- How it runs
Royal Museums Greenwich are inviting contractors to participate in a procurement to deliver scenic and engineered models for a suite of new Royal Observatory Greenwich exhibitions, as part of the ROG First Light Project. This will be a two-stage procurement process including a PSQ process from which contractors will be shortlisted. Shortlisted contractors will be invited to Tender. Contractors will be invited to more…
visit site. Full details of the procurement procedure can be found in the procurement documentation.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Delta eSourcing- Expression of interest (EOI)
- 12 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Tender submission deadline
- 12 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 2 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedjust passed2 Oct 2026, 13:25 BST
- Clarification questions byin 31 days2 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Expressions of interest byin 41 days12 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 41 days12 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 235 days25 May 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 241 days1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published2 Oct 2026, 13:25 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender