Published date: 21 February 2025

Last edited date: 27 February 2025

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: 17 March 2025, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Artistic services - 92312000

  • Services provided by individual artists - 92312250

Location of contract

SW7 2DD

Value of contract

£0 to £100,000

Procurement reference

IT-492-1460-SCM3537M

Published date

21 February 2025

Closing date

17 March 2025

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

30 June 2025

Contract end date

31 January 2027

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

Introduction :
Tomorrow: The Bennett Gallery will be the Science Museum's new landmark gallery exploring how today's scientific discoveries are shaping our future. It will be the destination for our audiences to discover and learn about the most exciting and impactful
science stories transforming lives today and extending what we know about ourselves, our home and our universe. This project will transform one of our most prominent and highly visited locations, currently home to the Exploring Space gallery, where 80% of our audience pours through the museum every day. The gallery will create a step-change in how we excite, inspire, and engage our audiences with current science, technology and innovation. We regularly work with artists, makers and designers across our sites, adding to the permanent collection, developing exhibitions and galleries, and contributing to our events programme.

Invitation to the artist, maker or designer :
We are seeking a bold, vibrant response to the themes raised by the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) initiative to be as a centrepiece of the gallery The Human Cell Atlas project is a global consortium of scientists striving to map every cell in the human body to transform our understanding of health and find new ways of diagnosing and treating disease. We wish to showcase one of biology's most ambitious and significant projects and speak to the role scientific enquiry plays in revealing what it is to be human. In engaging with the HCA's mission, this piece also plays a role in evoking a sense of unfolding scale that emerges across the gallery, from genes and cells to cosmic objects. There is an exciting opportunity to explore how our curious and energetic visitors might engage with the physical form of such a piece. Featured alongside the artwork will be a film about the project as well as a selection of cell images.

This will be a 2 stage process, Shortlisted practitioners will be asked to submit a visual concept as part of a second stage selection process, providing information on budget, programme and design.

More information

Links

Additional text

You can view our tender documents here: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sciencemuseumgroup/aspx/Home or, if preferred, you can request the tender documents by emailing Procurement@sciencemuseum.ac.uk. Please send proposals by email to procurement@sciencemuseum.ac.uk by no later than 17 March 2025

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Rahul Rajendran

Address

Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DD
United Kingdom

Telephone

02079424171

Email

Rahul.Rajendran@ScienceMuseum.ac.uk

Website

https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk