UK Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka - Content Production and Associated Services (CPAS)
What is being bought
The United Kingdom (UK) is participating in World Expo 2025, which runs from 13 April 2025 - 13 October 2025 and will take place in Osaka, Kansai, Japan. His Majestys Government (HMG) will deliver a self-built UK Pavilion (UKP) at Expo 2025 Osaka. This requirement is for the provision of Content Production and Associated Services to support the delivery of the UKP at Expo 2025 Osaka. HMG has appointed a supplier to provide content production, software development and associated services in respect of the creative content design intent produced for the UKP. The services will primarily include taking the current creative ideas and designs of the content and software for the UK Pavilion visitor experience and producing and developing them into assets ready to be installed. The Supplier will need to have an understanding of the creative context of the content to fully realise the designs to ensure they deliver on the intended experience.
Categories
Comparable-procurement analytics
Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Miscellaneous business and business-related services (79900000); 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 set | Procedures | Reported bids per procedure | Named award suppliers | Price evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market: CPV division 79 | 9,197 | 4 median · 33.4 average (3,640 of 9,197 with a bid count) | 3.2 average (4,079 of 9,197 with named award suppliers) | 1 comparable price pairs |
| Same buyer | 1 | 5 median · 5 average (1 of 1 with a bid count) | 1 average (1 of 1 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
Planning & early market engagement
No planning milestones published.
Related procurements
No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.
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.
| OCID | ocds-h6vhtk-046fe0 |
|---|---|
| Latest release ID | 020293-2024 |
| Latest release timestamp | Wed Jul 03 2024 13:17:01 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Source | find-a-tender |
| Official notice URL | Not published |
| Tender status | Not published |
| Procurement method | Not published |
| Procurement method details | Not published |
| Main procurement category | services |
| Above threshold | Not published |
| Legal basis | 32014L0024 |
| Tender period: start | Not published |
| Tender period: end | Not published |
| Expression of interest deadline | Not published |
| Enquiry deadline | Not published |
| Award period: start | Not published |
| Award period: end | Not published |
| Submission method details | Not published |
| Submission languages | Not published |
| Electronic catalogue policy | Not published |
| Total tender value | Not published |
| Tender lots in source | 0 |
| Tender items in source | 0 |
| Tender documents in source | 0 |
| Awards in latest release | 0 |
| Contracts in latest release | 0 |
| Parties in latest release | 1 |
Notice history
| Date | Event | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Jul 2024 | tenderUpdate | 020293-2024 |
| 14 Jun 2024 | award, contract | 018394-2024 |
All source data
Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.
Complete current OCDS release JSON
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