Award of Contract for Storage, Transportation and Installation

Contract summary

Industry

• Library, archives, museums and other cultural services - 92500000

Location of contract

TW9 3AE

Value of contract

£250,000

Procurement reference

RBGKEW547

Published date

31 December 2018

Closing date

27 November 2018

Contract start date

14 January 2019

Contract end date

25 October 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew has awarded a contract for the loading/unloading, storage, transportation and project management of the installation and derig of artworks in relation to the Chihuly Exhibition at Kew Gardens in 2019.

The Chihuly exhibition will be the main summer visitor marketing campaign for 2019. The purpose of the exhibition is to help achieve our target paying and total visitor number in summer 2019, thus providing day‐visitor ticket income and also supporting secondary income and membership retention & recruitment.

Dale Chihuly is an internationally renowned glass sculptor, with works of art on display in RBG Kew, hotels and visitor attractions all over the world. Chihuly will be exhibiting his works (to form the primary visitor campaign for the year) at Kew Gardens in 2019 from April 11 - October 27. There will be 10 main outdoor locations for the pieces and three indoor locations, and they will require transporting, handling and installing safely into the Gardens.

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Award information

Awarded date

27 November 2018

Contract start date

14 January 2019

Contract end date

15 November 2019

Total value of contract

£250,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Mtec

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About the buyer

Contact name

Joanna McKelvey

Address

Kew Green
RICHMOND
TW93AB
England

Email

procurement@kew.org