{ "tag": [ "compiled" ], "id": "ocds-h6vhtk-0777e2-2026-09-22T16:05:32+01:00", "date": "2026-09-22T16:05:32+01:00", "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-0777e2", "initiationType": "tender", "parties": [ { "id": "GB-PPON-PCDW-8715-VGZT", "name": "British Museum", "identifier": { "scheme": "GB-PPON", "id": "PCDW-8715-VGZT" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Great Russell Street", "locality": "London", "postalCode": "WC1B 3DG", "country": "GB", "countryName": "United Kingdom", "region": "UKI31" }, "contactPoint": { "email": "procurement@britishmuseum.org" }, "roles": [ "buyer" ], "details": { "classifications": [ { "scheme": "UK_CA_TYPE", "id": "publicAuthorityCentralGovernment", "description": "Public authority - central government" } ] } }, { "id": "GB-COH-OC307124", "name": "GARDINER & THEOBALD LLP", "identifier": { "scheme": "GB-COH", "id": "OC307124" }, "additionalIdentifiers": [ { "scheme": "GB-PPON", "id": "PPGW-7436-DBWT" } ], "address": { "streetAddress": "10 South Crescent", "locality": "London", "postalCode": "WC1E 7BD", "country": "GB", "countryName": "United Kingdom", "region": "UKI31" }, "contactPoint": { "email": "marketing@gardiner.com" }, "roles": [ "procuringEntity" ], "roleDetails": "Gardiner & Theobald LLP provide Project Management services for the Western Range Programme and have been involved in the preparation of the procurement related documents. They will be involved in the management of this procurement process which may include evaluation of some, or all, elements of tenders submitted.", "details": { "url": "http://www.gardiner.com" } } ], "buyer": { "id": "GB-PPON-PCDW-8715-VGZT", "name": "British Museum" }, "tender": { "id": "BM.26.062", "legalBasis": { "id": "2023/54", "scheme": "UKPGA", "uri": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents" }, "title": "Western Range Planning Communications Consultant", "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 Planning Communications Consultant is therefore required to provide specialist, project-specific expertise to develop and deliver coordinated communications services in relation to Town and Country Planning matters for the Western Range programme throughout the pre-application, planning submission, determination and, if instructed, post determination processes. Full details of the scope of services required are contained in the associated tender documents. Due to the confidential/commercially sensitive nature of information that will be included in the associated tender documents we require that interested suppliers enter into a confidentiality agreement before they are given access to the tender pack. A copy of the confidentiality agreement is available by request via email to procurement@britishmuseum.org. The terms of the confidentiality agreement are not subject to negotiation. 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If you have difficulty registering on the portal we recommend that you contact the Delta helpdesk directly on 44(0)800 923 9236 or email helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com. Participants must also be registered as suppliers on the Find a Tender system in order to participate. You must have submitted a complete supplier information set and ensure that it is up to date at the point of tender submission. 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The relevant statutory bodies' decision making process and eventual method by which the Planning Applications will be determined is beyond the control of the Authority or the Supplier. A modification resulting from the materialisation of these risks would extend the contract to cover any delay and, if required, allow for completion and submission of revised Planning Applications inclusive of the determination route/process. The Authority considers that awarding a new contract in order to cover any delay or, if required, completion and submission of revised Planning Applications or amended determination route would not be in the public interest as the time and financial impact of conducting a new procurement and onboarding a potential new Supplier coupled with potential loss of accumulated knowledge would not represent value for money." }, "language": "en" }