Notice Information
Notice Title
ROG First Light Exhibitions Digital Media
Notice Description
Royal Museums Greenwich are inviting contractors to participate in a procurement to deliver digital media / AV software exhibits for a suite of new Royal Observatory Greenwich exhibitions, part of the ROG First Light Project. The procurement will be divided into Lots. Suppliers can bid for one or more of these Lots. The Lots are as follows: a) LOT 1: Linear Animation & Projection Media b) LOT 2: Interactive Media & Experiential Systems c) LOT 3: Film / Documentary Production d) LOT 4: Holistic Soundscape Package This will be a two-stage procurement process including a PSQ process from which contractors will be shortlisted. Shortlisted contractors for each Lot 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. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Museum-services./5RW7HE4DFG To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/5RW7HE4DFG
Lot Information
Linear Animation & Projection Media
We are looking for an animation studio or motion design team to bring the stories of the Royal Observatory Greenwich to life across five galleries. This Lot is the visual heartbeat of the ROG First Light project, spanning a large-scale ceiling installation, projection-mapped historic rooms, immersive wall projections and a suite of screen-based explainers. The work ranges from a Pepper's Ghost animation in the Lifecycle of a Star gallery to a precisely masked projection onto the original instruments in Halley's Transit Room. Briefs in this Lot are predominantly passive, with real-time generative and trigger-driven exceptions noted per brief. Content should reward both the visitor who pauses for two minutes and the one who passes through in thirty seconds. Visual coherence across galleries is essential.
Interactive Media & Experiential SystemsWe are looking for an interactive development studio, or a tightly structured consortium, to build the hands-on, visitor-driven heart of ROG First Light. This Lot covers a number of exhibits ranging from multiplayer digital games and touchscreen simulations to a live-camera reactive installation that distorts your own reflection through gravitational lensing. The work is technically varied and genuinely ambitious. EXH31 Black Hole Mirror uses depth tracking and a real-time GPU shader to simulate a black hole effect on a live camera feed. EXH30 Black Hole Game is a multiplayer deduction game in which visitors infer the position of a hidden black hole by watching how stars move. SCD.AV.02 puts the visitor in the basket of James Glaisher's balloon. Every exhibit in this Lot asks visitors to do something, and to discover something as a result.
Film & Documentary ProductionWe are looking for a film production company to create the filmed and recorded content across the ROG First Light project. This Lot brings working scientists, historians and contemporary voices into the gallery on screen and through a headset, giving visitors a human perspective on the stories that the objects and exhibits tell. The work includes short looping interview films with active astronomers explaining the transit method and astronomical sonification; a documentary piece at the National Physical Laboratory exploring contemporary atomic timekeeping; and Looking Back to Earth, a cinematic three-screen portrait installation presenting views of Earth from space as a moment of calm reflection at the end of the gallery journey.
Holistic Soundscape PackageWe are looking for a specialist spatial audio practitioner to compose and deliver the acoustic identity of ROG First Light. This Lot covers five commissions: three large-scale multichannel soundscapes, a spoken-word audio point, and a short atmospheric installation inspired by the historic speaking pipes of the Observatory. The soundscapes are not background music. GEF.AV.01 in the Time Department is the primary expressive engine of a ceiling-mounted light and sound show, and the lighting installation will take the composition as its creative reference. MOB.AV.05 spans three interconnected rooms of the Meridian Observatory, each with a distinct acoustic character and ceiling height, the atmospheric bed of MOB.AV.05a must contain a deliberate compositional dip timed to a star transit alignment cue issued by the Lot 1 animation contractor at picture lock. These are technically and creatively demanding commissions that require genuine multichannel spatial audio expertise.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-06abce
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/052052-2026
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK4 - Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
92 - Recreational, cultural and sporting services
-
- CPV Codes
92521000 - Museum services
92521100 - Museum-exhibition services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £600,500 £500K-£1M
- Lots Value
- £600,500 £500K-£1M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 2 Jun 20262 days ago
- Submission Deadline
- 29 Jun 20264 weeks to go
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 15 Mar 2027 - 15 May 2028 1-2 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SE10 9NF
- Post Town
- South East London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI5 Outer London - East and North East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI51 Bexley and Greenwich
- Delivery Location
- TLI London
-
- Local Authority
- Greenwich
- Electoral Ward
- Greenwich Park
- Westminster Constituency
- Greenwich and Woolwich
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/052052-2026
2nd June 2026 - Tender notice on Find a Tender
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