Published date: 12 July 2022

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 5 August 2022, 10am

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

SW3 4HT

Value of contract

£30,000

Procurement reference

K-7-13-3-1-1-5

Published date

12 July 2022

Closing date

5 August 2022

Closing time

10am

Contract start date

8 August 2022

Contract end date

7 October 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The National Army Museum (NAM) (the Client) wishes to appoint a suitably qualified transport agent (the Company) experienced at working with historic museum collections.

The National Army Museum currently has two galleries called Battle and Society, which are being redisplayed shortly. In the scope of this brief, the NAM wishes to appoint a suitably qualified fine art transport agent to remove items from both galleries, pack and return them to NAM's stores at Stevenage. This amounts to 859 objects across both galleries. Most of the objects will be decanted and packed by NAM's conservators, however there are several items that require decanting by the transport agent, due to their weight, size, or displayed at height. There are also several items that require packing crates manufactured for transportation. These details can be found in the attached Annexes, which are under separate cover and should be read in conjunction with this brief, to form your tender response. The Museum requires the transport agent to return all items in Annex B to their store in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

Included as separate documents, under separate cover, with this tender brief are:

• Annex A - List of objects and paintings requiring new crates, travel frames, or foam-core boxes, as well as de-installation and packing by the transport agent, or rehanging/relocating on site. The transport agent will also be required to provide 7 pallets for the purpose of transporting dressed mannequins, and to secure 4 mannequins to each pallet, with oversight by NAM staff.

• Annex B - Total list of all items that the transport agent is required to return to NAM's store at Stevenage.

• Annex C - Door widths, lift capacity and access route. To follow

A site visit is strongly recommended.

More information

Attachments

About the buyer

Contact name

Ms Christine Bernath

Address

Royal Hospital Road
LONDON
SW34HT
England

Telephone

020 7730 0717

Email

cbernath@nam.ac.uk

Website

www.nam.ac.uk