Published date: 28 April 2020

This notice was replaced on 5 June 2020

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Opportunity (published 5 June 2020)

Closed early engagement


Contract summary

Industry

  • Transport services (excl. Waste transport) - 60000000

  • Artistic services - 92312000

Location of contract

London

Procurement reference

tender_239467/852371

Published date

28 April 2020

Closing date

10 May 2020

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This is an early engagement notice to notify potentially interested organisations that the Barbican Art Gallery (on behalf of the City of London Corporation) will shortly be launching a procurement process to establish a forthcoming Framework Agreement for an Art Transportation Service to cover its requirements domestically and internationally.

The Framework Agreement shall be utilised to award work for the packing and transport of fine art, objects, storage of works, entire exhibitions and exhibition fixtures and fittings from Barbican Sites; to and/or from any site at which an exhibition is taking place; and to and/or from the premises of any owner/lender of a work. Other departments of the City of London Corporation will have the ability to utilise the Framework Agreement for the provision of any, or all, of the requirements which are the same as, or similar to those services specified in the forthcoming procurement documents.

It is currently envisaged that tenders will be invited during May 2020, with prospective bidders being given up to a 5 week period to respond to the opportunity.

Please note that a separate contract notice will be published in due course (May 2020), with the procurement process being undertaken via the electronic tendering system 'Capital eSourcing'. Interested organisations will need to register their interest on the Capital eSourcing system once the opportunity is live in order to participate and registration is free (via the URL provided below).

The procurement documents will be available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at URL: https://www.capitalesourcing.com

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About the buyer

Address

The Mayor and Commonality and Citizens of the City of London, City of London, Guildhall, PO Box 270
City of London Corporation, Guildhall, PO Box 270
EC2P 2EJ
England

Email

oliqur.chowdhury@cityoflondon.gov.uk