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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 3 months ago Contract notice

ROG First Light Exhibitions Orrery Contractor

Open United Kingdom Culture, sport & recreation

Buyer National Maritime Museum

€182,143 estimated value · converted from GBP

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Summary

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The Royal Observatory Greenwich, as part of its ROG First Light Project, is procuring an Orrery Contractor to deliver orreries, mechanical models of the solar system, at various points across the ROG site. The contractor will be responsible for the development, engineering, fabrication, installation and commissioning of two kinetic and interactive orreries, including contractor design duties and coordination with exhibition designers and other contractors on and off site. The procurement uses a two-stage process: a preliminary selection questionnaire to shortlist contractors, followed by an invitation to tender, with site visits offered to shortlisted bidders. Responses are submitted via the Delta eSourcing portal.

Timing

  1. Published

Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) does not publish a closing date for this notice. See the official notice

Description

This procurement exercise is to secure an Orrery Contractor to deliver orreries at various points of the Royal Observatory Greenwich site, as part of the ROG First Light Project. The Orrery Contractor will be responsible for the development, engineering, fabrication, installation and commissioning of two orreries (mechanical models of the solar system) across the ROG, both kinetic and interactive. The Contractor's responsibilities will include elements of Contractor Design as well as coordination with exhibition designers and other contractors, both off-site and on-site. This will be a two-stage procurement process including a PSQ process from which contractors will be shortlisted. Shortlisted contractors 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-exhibition-services./FA79DWW9GC To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/FA79DWW9GC

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Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 3 months ago

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Market

Culture, sport & recreation in United Kingdom

median award in this market
€91,788
More figures

What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 34 awards for Culture, sport & recreation in United Kingdom.

This notice
€182,143
Median award
€91,788
Middle half of past awards
€33,584 to €182,031

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Market context

Larger than 56% of the open notices in Culture, sport & recreation across Europe.

open now in Culture, sport & recreation
894
median open notice
€127,010

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Culture, sport & recreation

different companies won awards here
44
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
13%
buyers awarded contracts here
29

Based on 47 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

The buyer in figures

National Maritime Museum

National Maritime Museum

United Kingdom

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Culture, sport & recreation - United Kingdom

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Bolinda Digital Ltd 1 €350,038 Mar 2026
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Based on 47 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

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