Notice Information
Notice Title
Security Services to the Museums Security Consortium
Notice Description
Security tender invites for the Natural History Museum and V&A are coming soon! We are giving advance notice that on 01 April 2026 we will be posting a Tender Notice to kickstart a procurement process for security services to our organisations. This is not a call for competition, just an update with our timeline for the procurement process. This will be a single contract for a lead supplier to deliver the services. The contract will include the following services at a number of sites: * 24/7 Control room services (command and control, CCTV and alarm monitoring) * Security guarding and patrols * Key and pass issue * Event security * Logistics (deliveries etc) More information will be available in the pack once we go live on 01 April 2026. Unfortunately due to market engagement rules we can't discuss this any further with individual suppliers. All the information in this notice is accurate to the best of our knowledge but is subject to amendment between now and April as we develop our tender pack. The current contract is held by a consortium comprising the V&A, NHM and Science Museum Group. The Science Museum Group has decided to leave the consortium and proceed alone for the re-tendering of its security services. Therefore the new consortium comprises the V&A and NHM.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Options: Option to vary range of services within the CPV code range. Option to add or remove sites.
Renewal: Up to three one year extensions by mutual agreement
Planning Information
To respond to our survey, please use this link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=pqhybT5ixEK4FwRbTfKt1P9TzZfPOsVLljXFrpdOTGFUM08wNE1GSElNRllaOTNaRENCOE83Q0QwVyQlQCN0PWcu We are looking to go out to market for security services in 2026 for a start date of March 2027. We are currently considering our options for how those services could be provided. This includes thinking about whether we remain as a consortium and if so, in what form. We want to hear your views to help us make this decision so we are issuing this survey as part of our preliminary market engagement. The purpose of this survey is to help us understand suppliers' appetite and capability for providing these services to us a. individually or as a consortium, and b. as a single combined contract or in various packages. We want to get your opinion on what benefits there might be from us packaging up the contract in various ways. Responses submitted in this survey will not in any way impact any future submission for these - or any other - tenders with the NHM, SMG and V&A. Any data received as part of our preliminary market engagement activities will be retained and deleted in line with Regulation 98 (4) of the Procurement Act 2023 (three years after a contract is entered into). We will not share responses to this survey with any third parties except in an anonymised format. We have carried out a conflicts interest assessment for all individuals that will have sight of the responses received. To fulfil our duty under the Regulation 16(3) of the Procurement Act 2023 we will include in our tender pack an aggregated summary of all responses received once we go out to market for these services but such summary will not contain any personally identifiable information. The survey closes at the end of the day on 07 July 2025.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05483c
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008560-2026
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK3 - Planned Procurement Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
79710000 - Security services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £85,829,691 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- £85,829,691 £10M-£100M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 30 Jan 20261 weeks ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 1 Apr 20262 months to go
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 17 Mar 2027 - 16 Mar 2032 Over 5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planned
- Lots Status
- Planned
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- nhmprocurement@nhm.ac.uk, procurement@sciencemuseum.ac.uk, procurement@vam.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW7 2RL
- Post Town
- South West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI33 Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham
- Delivery Location
- TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLG West Midlands (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England)
-
- Local Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Electoral Ward
- Brompton & Hans Town
- Westminster Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008560-2026
30th January 2026 - Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/032163-2025
13th June 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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