Imperial War Museum: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public body·Central government·Greater London·London
Official UK PPONPHRL-5691-LLXM
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 26 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
46 awarded tenders, 92 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
45 Construction work28 procedures · 44%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting17 procedures · 27%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting11 procedures · 17%71 Architectural, construction, engineering8 procedures · 13%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet8 procedures · 13%73 Research and development services5 procedures · 8%32 Radio, television, communication2 procedures · 3%44 Construction structures and materials2 procedures · 3%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 64 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract81%(52 notices)
52 of 64 notices are Contract (81%).Framework19%(12 notices)
12 of 64 notices are Framework (19%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Open86%(55 notices)
55 of 64 notices are Open (86%).Direct award13%(8 notices)
8 of 64 notices are Direct award (13%).Selective2%(1 notice)
1 of 64 notices is Selective (2%).
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 26 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 34 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 64 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 22 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Tetra Tech | 3 | 6.5% | 3 | 4 | 24 Mar 2026 |
| Dannatt Johnson Architects LLP | 3 | 6.5% | 3 | 3 | 24 Mar 2026 |
| Marcon Fit-Out Ltd | 3 | 6.5% | 1 | 4 | 16 Jun 2026 |
| ECMS Services Limited | 2 | 4.3% | 2 | 2 | 11 Nov 2025 |
| + Pick Everard + | 2 | 4.3% | 2 | 2 | 24 Mar 2026 |
| Workhaus Projects Ltd | 2 | 4.3% | 0 | 3 | — |
| Sam Forster Associates Ltd | 2 | 4.3% | 0 | 3 | — |
| Scena Ltd | 2 | 4.3% | 0 | 3 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 17% of 46 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 92 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| IWM/2627/EPS/3505: DUX Electrical Infrastructure Upgrade - AWARD NOTICE | BECHTLE LIMITED | 19 Aug 2026 | 3 mo | £2,083,333 |
| Security Systems at Imperial War Museums (IWM) | Ze Global | 12 Aug 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 7 yrs | £1,488,410 ≈ £496k/yr |
| IWM Immersive Experience | EAST CITY FILMS LTD | 13 Oct 2026 | 5 yrs · up to 7 yrs | £1,000,000 ≈ £200k/yr |
| IWM/2526/FM/3479: Design and Construction of New Fire Engine Shed at IWM Duxford | Carmelcrest Ltd | 5 Jan 2026 | 6 mo | £698,635 |
| Duxford Hard Runway Repairs and Resurfacing | LAGAN AIRPORT MAINTENANCE LIMITED | 4 Jun 2026 | 2 mo | £550,836 |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
13 of 14 contracts carry an end date, 7 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 74 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| IWM London - Technical Architect | Awarded / complete | 12 Dec 2025 | — |
| IWM/2526/FM/3482: AAM Shading & Door Automation Project at IWM DuxfordExterior blinds | Awarded / complete | 8 Dec 2025 | £375,000 |
| IWM/2526/FM/3475: Refurbishment of the Gate Lodge at IWM LondonPreservation services of historical sites and buildings | Awarded / complete | 28 Nov 2025 | £100,000 |
| IWM/2526/FM/3462: Ground Source Heat Pump in Hangar 4 at IWM DuxfordEngineering design services | Awarded / complete | 17 Nov 2025 | £150,884 |
| IWM/2526/FM/3476: Historic Hangars Rainwater Management at IWM DuxfordRain-water basin construction work | Awarded / complete | 17 Nov 2025 | £350,000 |
| IWM/2526/APE/3466: Audience Segmentation Development Project for Imperial War MuseumsMarket and economic research; polling and statistics | Awarded / complete | 13 Nov 2025 | £112,500 |
| IWM/2526/LON/3430: Lead Architect Consultant Services for a project at IWM LondonAdvisory architectural services | Awarded / complete | 28 Oct 2025 | £228,000 |
| Security Systems at Imperial War Museums (IWM)Repair and maintenance services of security equipment | Awarded / complete | 27 Oct 2025 | £840,000 |
| Whale Bridge (Mulberry Harbour) Relocation at IWM DuxfordBridge construction work | Open | 20 Oct 2025 | £137,500 |
| IWM/2526/FM/3481: Re-Roofing Works for Building 424 at IWM DuxfordRoof repair | Open | 10 Oct 2025 | £350,000 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 13 of 14 published contracts have an end date; 7 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.