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# UK Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka - Design, Build, Maintain & Decommission (DBMD)

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/uk-pavilion-at-expo-2025-osaka-design-build-maintain-decommission-dbmd-ocds-h6vhtk-03c55d). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department for Business & Trade: "UK Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka - Design, Build, Maintain & Decommission (DBMD)". Published status: complete. Published Value: £24,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 21 Jul 2023, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: uktrade.app.jaggaer.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Department for Business & Trade](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-for-business-trade-gov-d1382)
- **Published Value:** £24,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 21 July 2023 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Architectural design services, Building and facilities management services, Construction consultancy services, Construction project management services, Construction work for buildings relating to exhibitions (+6 more)
- **Delivery Location:** JP, UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £24,000,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/uk-pavilion-at-expo-2025-osaka-design-build-maintain-decommission-dbmd-ocds-h6vhtk-03c55d#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03c55d`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/uk-pavilion-at-expo-2025-osaka-design-build-maintain-decommission-dbmd-ocds-h6vhtk-03c55d#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [uktrade.app.jaggaer.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuktrade.app.jaggaer.com%2Fweb%2Flogin.html)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/uk-pavilion-at-expo-2025-osaka-design-build-maintain-decommission-dbmd-ocds-h6vhtk-03c55d#participate

## Description
The United Kingdom (UK) is participating in Expo 2025, which runs from 13 April 2025 - 13 October 2025 and will take place in Osaka, Japan. The overarching theme of Expo 2025 is "Designing Future Society for Our Lives". Expo will welcome visitors from all over the world, allowing countries to build extraordinary pavilions and transform the host city for years to come. 
His Majestys Government (HMG) has procured a supplier (referred to as the "Contractor") to manage the delivery of the Design, Build, Maintain, and Decommission (referred to as "DBMD") of the UK Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.
The Contractor will take full design liability and responsibility for managing the end-to-end delivery of the physical UK Pavilion and will be responsible for taking forward HMGs creative vision, and delivering a design that can be built in the timeframes; with the materials available; can deliver our key messages and visitor experience; and meets Japanese construction regulations.
The Contractor is responsible for managing the construction of the designed UK Pavilion (using appropriately licenced contractors that can build in Japan), fitting it out, maintaining it for the six (6) months of Expo, and then decommissioning it at the end of Expo. The Contractor is responsible for managing any required consortium group members, subcontractors, or supply chain partners required to deliver the requirement via the proposed "Integrator" delivery model outlined in the Scope.
For clarity, services under this DBMD Contract do not include requirements for full operational services (such as staffing, events, hospitality etc) during the Expo.
Please see section II.2.4 of this notice for further information on this procurement.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 44211000, 44211100, 45212310, 45212600, 45223810, 50800000
- **Delivery regions:** JP, UK

- **Estimated Value:** £24,000,000
- **Description:** HMG has procured a Contractor to Design, Build (including Fitout), Maintain, and Decommission the UK Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka. All services required (including any specific works for the construction, and goods for the fitout) will be delivered th...
- **Contract Period:** 03/09/2023 to 31/03/2027
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** UK Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka - Design, Build, Maintain & Decommission (DBMD) (active)
  - Award id: `030704-2023-1`
  - Supplier(s): **ES Global**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-95580`
  - Value: £24,000,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** UK Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka - Design, Build, Maintain & Decommission (DBMD) (active)
  - Signed Value: £24,000,000
  - Signed Date: 27/09/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F030704-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-10-18T09:42:00.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T22:17:05.929Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03c55d