Published date: 20 November 2017

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: 11 December 2017

Contract summary

Industry

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  • Signs and related items - 44423400

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£50,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

RBGKew/511

Published date

20 November 2017

Closing date

11 December 2017

Contract start date

8 January 2018

Contract end date

7 January 2021

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew is a world leading botanic garden with two main sites, Kew Gardens Richmond and Wakehurst, Sussex. This contract will cover both sites with the audit sections of this brief to occur simultaneously across both sites. The aims of this contract are:
• To improve the visitor experience and visitor journey across the London and Wakehurst sites.
• To provide opportunities for temporary signage for events, weddings and conferences.
• To work with the Wakehurst team to ensure the full signage and wayfinding of all departments are considered and responded to.
• To create a suite of designs for all required signage types across the site.
• To create a Waymarking system which can be used across the Wakehurst and Kew Gardens sites. It is understood that the application of this system may vary from one site to the other.

We are looking for a supplier who has demonstrable experience of working on similar projects for visitor-facing organisations that included the elements of design and execution of a site wayfinding hierarchy and plan and layout in the environment.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

The Invitation to tender and response documents can be accessed at the Defra Bravo eTendering Portal (https://defra.bravosolution.co.uk/), please search for Opportunity ref: "itt_3678 - Signage and Wayfinding Design Services for RBG Kew".

About the buyer

Address

RBG Kew
The Herbarium, Kew Green
Richmond
TW9 3AE
England

Email

procurement@kew.org