Notice Information
Notice Title
Wonderlab Interactive Exhibit Makers (Group 1), The Science and Industry Museum
Notice Description
The Science and Industry Museum's new Wonderlab gallery will be a vibrant, awe-inspiring spectacle at the heart of the world's first industrial city. Dynamic, social and multisensory, it will celebrate the wonder of science and invite everyone to unleash their inner inventor. Drawing on Manchester's unparalleled heritage of innovation, the gallery will excite and challenge young minds to help inspire the next generation of scientists and inventors. Children and their accompanying adults will be encouraged to 'Think and act like an inventor', through curious, fun and memorable interactive experiences and a multifaceted, joyful and stimulating live programme. They will deepen their understanding of science phenomena, delight in tinkering and testing, develop new and existing skills and grow in confidence to question and explore. As a core permanent gallery offer, the new space will be an integral part of the Science and Industry Museum's vision and Masterplan. The gallery floor and purpose-built spaces for live programme will create welcoming, playful and inspiring environment, creating the perfect backdrop for visitors to imagine, investigate and reflect. This tender invites suppliers to bid for Wonderlab's Group 1 interactives, informally described as the "Hero exhibits". These interactive exhibits will provide moments of joy, fun, surprise and wonder at regular intervals throughout the visitor journey. They will offer communal 'wow' moments, where large groups can engage and interact, while being surprised and impressed by the scale, novelty and working of the interactive. For more information, please see the tender documents.
Lot Information
Manchester Machine
The Manchester Machine will be a spectacular feature where visitors will be mesmerised and go home talking about it. It will be a large scale interactive in which many visitors can interact at multiple points (think hand cranks, levers, pulleys) each creating its own immediate effect, providing instant gratification. Balls will roll, tracks will switch direction, pulleys will rotate, flaps will open and pistons will rise and fall, creating an ever-moving spectacle of engineering, inspired by Manchester's history of innovation.
Digital LoomThis exhibit will be visually striking and will catch visitors' eye as they enter the gallery. The beautiful projection will grab their attention with its attractive, graphic presence.
Loco RaceThis exhibit will be visually striking from a distance, as the racing lines sweep and curve around the historic pillars, creating a sense of movement, as well as connecting visitors to the beautiful architecture of the gallery.
Cogs Pulleys LeversVisitors explore a range of loose parts to create moving mechanisms using cogs, pulleys and levers.
Whirlwind RoomMultiple visitors enter a space where air jets blow and visitors can use scarves or other objects to explore the impact and power of the air jets.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-06b846
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/062156-2026
- 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
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
-
- CPV Codes
92521000 - Museum services
92521100 - Museum-exhibition services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £425,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £425,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 2 Jul 2026Today
- Submission Deadline
- 13 Jul 20262 weeks to go
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 10 Aug 2026 - 10 Aug 2028 2-3 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
- SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP
- 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
- SW7 2DD
- 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
- Not specified
-
- 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/062156-2026
2nd July 2026 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057651-2026
18th June 2026 - Tender notice on Find a Tender
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