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Western Range Construction Logistics Advisor

The British Museum

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04 Sep 2026 at 15:13

UK6 - Contract Award Notice
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13 Jul 2026 at 17:47

UK4 - Tender Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The British Museum appointed a construction logistics adviser for its Western Range Programme in Bloomsbury, London. The work supports redevelopment of about 15,000 square metres across 10 buildings, including galleries and collection storage, within a Grade I listed estate and a live cultural institution. The adviser will lead construction and logistics planning for a complex, constrained site while maintaining safe access for visitors and staff and protecting, moving and managing collections. Core services cover buildability review, phasing, construction programming, logistics strategy and construction impact assessment, followed by pre-construction advice through design development. Optional services cover procurement support, construction support, and logistics advice for the wider transformation programme, including collection decant, transport routes and temporary visitor and staff facilities. The main category is construction consultancy and advisory services.

This is a completed open procedure for a single lot, evaluated on quality at 60% and price at 40%. Six bids reached the final stage, including five from SMEs. The contract was awarded to BSB Construction Limited on 4 September 2026 for £279,950 excluding VAT (£335,940 including VAT). The award is recorded as pending, with the standstill period ending on 15 September 2026 and signature scheduled for 16 September 2026. The awarded contract period runs from 16 September 2026 to 31 May 2028. Its estimated tender value was £300,000 excluding VAT (£360,000 including VAT). Two service packages form the core requirement and three are optional, with their use dependent on the programme's development through RIBA Stages 3 and 4. The opportunity was suitable for SMEs and VCSEs.

This procurement demonstrates demand for specialist construction logistics and buildability advice on major heritage projects delivered within occupied, tightly constrained urban sites. A credible competitor would need to coordinate construction logistics with ongoing public operations, collection protection and movement, restricted access, neighbouring properties, stakeholder requirements and listed-building constraints. Relevant capability includes reviewing designs for buildability, cost, programme and risk; preparing phasing, decant, enabling-works and site-layout plans; developing construction environmental and waste-management arrangements; and planning emergency egress. Experience supporting procurement, contractor methodology reviews, planning or listed-building consent conditions, and large-object or collection decant would strengthen a future response. The buyer also values the ability to work through RIBA design stages and to provide clear, evidence-based advice across technical, financial, legal and operational considerations.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Western Range Construction Logistics Advisor

Notice Description

The British Museum brings together the history of humankind, all cultures of the world spanning millennia. It connects us to our past and to each other. It is a place where everyone is welcome, where many voices meet to understand, and to question what brings us together and what separates us. It is a place of exploration and a place of inspiration. The collection that the Museum holds in trust for the world is of unparalleled breadth, depth, beauty and significance. A truly global resource, free and available to everyone. The Museum's role is to enhance and make accessible the collection through research, through interpretation, through display, through lending, and to share what it learns, as well as the process of learning, with others. With this matchless position comes a responsibility to ensure that this work can continue, ensuring the collection is cared for and accessible for generations to come, and that the Museum remains a centre of excellence and is continually relevant into the 21st century. The physical manifestation of the British Museum in Bloomsbury is iconic. It comprises almost an entire city block in one of the most intricate and established parts of central London. It is a treasured national icon within a conservation area that is, in itself, emblematic of the Capital. The Museum has an internal floor area of over 100,000m2, within a footprint that is packed with a diversity of buildings; the estate is Grade I listed, with perimeter properties that are listed Grade II. Each part of the Museum contains, iconic, often sizeable and irreplaceable items from the collection, and each is visited by many thousands of people, every day. Space on the site is both limited and precious, especially in terms of gallery spaces. The original quadrangle was designed for 100,000 visitors per annum, a figure that was already far exceeded in the 1850s. As it stands, annual visitor numbers to the Museum now regularly exceed six million. Today, there are heightened security requirements and a fundamental need to ensure inclusivity and access, as well as enabling intuitive wayfinding, addressing dilapidations, and creating an environment where people can connect with the collection, and by doing so, with each other. The Western Range Programme focuses on a substantial part of the estate that is in urgent need of both repair and re-imagining. This offers the Museum an opportunity to make a statement of its future intent, through reimagined galleries, new state-of-the-art storage facilities and engaging contemporary architecture, in juxtaposition to the highly significant and already celebrated listed buildings on the site. A multi-disciplinary design team led by Lina Ghotmeh Architecture has been selected to deliver the Western Range programme which is currently at the end of RIBA Stage 2 in the design process. Despite appearing as a single entity, the Western Range comprises a miscellany of 10 separate buildings which have been added to Robert Smirke's original Grade I listed Museum; as a result, the exact extent of the red-line boundary and phasing for this project is dependent on a number of interlocking considerations. The proposed project outline can be seen in the attached documentation. In the region of 15,000m2, it accounts for almost 15% of the floor space within the Bloomsbury site, in a warren of inflexible and static rooms. Further, recent surveys indicate that the existing building fabric and infrastructure are in a state that is below modern expectations. It comprises around 7,500m2 of gallery space and currently houses the Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece (including the Parthenon Sculptures), Rome, and Ancient Assyria and Middle East collections, along with 4,500m2 of back-of-house collection storage. The delivery of the Western Range redevelopment will take place within a complex and highly sensitive operational environment, requiring construction works to be carefully planned and coordinated alongside the ongoing activities of the British Museum. As a live cultural institution, the Museum must continue to provide safe and effective access for visitors and staff, while ensuring the protection, movement, and management of its collections throughout the construction period. The project presents a number of unique challenges, including working within a heritage setting, constrained site conditions, restricted access, neighbouring property interfaces, complex logistics requirements, and the need to coordinate multiple stakeholder requirements. A Construction Logistics Advisor is therefore required to provide specialist, project-specific expertise to develop a coordinated logistics strategy that minimises disruption, maintains operational continuity, and supports the successful delivery of the Western Range Programme. The Construction Logistics Advisor will act as the lead advisor and coordinator of construction and logistics strategies, working alongside the Client, Project Team, the construction marketplace and wide range of stakeholders. The Advisor will review project information and undertake independent research to support delivery of the programme. The appointment will have two core packages summarised below: Develop a Construction Logistics Strategy * To include a buildability review of the completed RIBA Stage 2 design to identify issues, risks and opportunities in relation to factors including budget, programme, etc * Produce an initial phasing plan * Review estate wide constraints * Develop an initial Construction Programme and Logistics Strategy * Complete a Construction Impact Assessment relating to disruption to business operations Provide Pre-Construction Advice * Maintain an iterative Buildability Appraisal throughout RIBA Stage 3 and test technical, financial and legal viability of the design proposals from multiple viewpoints. * Develop site layout plans * Prepare details phasing plans including decant and enabling works * Develop and support delivery of a pre-market engagement strategy to inform the Procurement Strategy, Master Programme, Cost Plan and Risk Register. * Prepare a Construction Environmental Management Plan and outline Site Waste Management Plan * Development of an Emergency Egress Strategy or Plan to support construction and temporary works phases The following three packages are optional and some, or all, may be instructed as delivery of the Western Range Programme evolves: Procurement Support * Support the procurement of packages to deliver the agreed Logistics Management Strategy, decant and enabling works * Contribute to definition of Contractor Design Portions were relevant * Review and contribute to RIBA Stage 4b procurement documentation in line with the agreed Procurement Strategy, including review of construction information and technical specifications relevant to logistics and buildability, and participate in tender evaluation. * If instructed, produce and input into documents required by the local planning authority for the discharge of Planning Consent Conditions and Listed Building Consents Construction Support * Contribute to relevant portions of the Information Management Plan. * Review proposed construction methodologies of appointed contractor(s) in line with the Construction/Logistic Strategy, statutory and planning requirements and best practice Construction/Logistics Advice in relation to the Transformation Programme * Advise on large object and collection decant in terms of enabling works, transport routes and provision of supporting staff facilities * Review compliance with relevant legislation, standards and museum practice of display relocation plans, alternate visitor facilities and relocation of critical collection support facilities Comprehensive details of all Packages are provided in the tender documents.

Lot Information

Lot 1

Options: The contract contains a number of related service packages. Two will form the core contract and the remaining three will be optional. Whether these options will be exercised will be determined by the development of the Western Range programme through RIBA Stages 3 and 4. Full details are provided in the associated tender documents

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c9fc
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/083982-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK6 - Contract Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

CPV Codes

71241000 - Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis

71530000 - Construction consultancy services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£300,000 £100K-£500K
Lots Value
£300,000 £100K-£500K
Awards Value
£279,950 £100K-£500K
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
4 Sep 20261 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
12 Aug 2026Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
4 Sep 20261 weeks ago
Contract Period
16 Sep 2026 - 31 May 2028 1-2 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Pending
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
The British Museum
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
WC1B 3DG
Postcode Area
Central London
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI3 Inner London - West
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI36 Camden
Delivery Location
TLI London
Local Authority
Camden
Electoral Ward
Bloomsbury
Westminster Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

BSB Construction ltd

Further Information

Notice Documents

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