The Royal Air Force Museum: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public body·Charity·Greater London·LONDON
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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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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
32 Radio, television, communication1 procedure · 11%51 Installation services (except software)1 procedure · 11%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedure · 11%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting1 procedure · 11%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 · 9 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.
Contract100%(9 notices)
9 of 9 notices are Contract (100%).
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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.
Limited / restricted67%(6 notices)
6 of 9 notices are Limited / restricted (67%).Direct award11%(1 notice)
1 of 9 notices is Direct award (11%).Open11%(1 notice)
1 of 9 notices is Open (11%).Route not published11%(1 notice)
1 of 9 notices is Route not published (11%).
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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 1 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 9 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 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| McPhillips (Wellington) Limited | 2 | 22.2% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Softcat Plc | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | — |
| VISO GROUP LTD | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Insulation Contracting Services Ltd | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | — |
| MEL Research Ltd | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | 17 Dec 2025 |
| Dexion Material Handling Ltd t/a CSI | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | 12 Nov 2025 |
| Bruynzeel Storage Systems Limited | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | — |
| APPLEYARD & TREW LLP | 1 | 11.1% | 0 | 1 | — |
9 awarded procedures across 10 suppliers: too few to describe concentration.
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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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| 24/7 365 IT Security Operations Centre | Softcat Plc | — | 3 yrs | £150,000 † ≈ £50k/yr |
| Collections Hub Racking and Shelving | Dexion Material Handling Ltd t/a CSI | — | 7 mo | £137,500 |
| Fire Door Replacement and Remedial Works | VISO GROUP LTD | — | 4 mo | £70,568 † |
| MDP Enabling Package 3 - Collections Hub Himalayan Balsam | McPhillips (Wellington) Limited | — | 2 mo | £45,500 † |
| Evaluation Consultant - Inspiring Everyone: RAF Museum Midlands Development Programme | MEL Research Ltd | 17 Dec 2025 | 2.8 yrs · up to 2.9 yrs | £45,000 ≈ £16k/yr |
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.
8 of 8 contracts carry an end date, 1 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| MDP Enabling Works 1 - Cable identification and heating pipes | McPhillips (Wellington) Limited | 31 Oct 2026 | £32,150 |
| Armoury Racking | Bruynzeel Storage Systems Limited | 31 Dec 2026 | £42,036 |
| Fire Door Replacement and Remedial Works | VISO GROUP LTD | 31 Dec 2026 | £70,568 |
Recent procedures
Latest 14 of 14 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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| Evaluation Consultant - Inspiring Everyone: RAF Museum Midlands Development ProgrammeEvaluation consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 8 Oct 2026 | £45,000 |
| MDP Enabling Works 10 - Asbestos Removal | Awarded / complete | 8 Oct 2026 | — |
| MDP Enabling Works 1 - Cable identification and heating pipes | Awarded / complete | 8 Oct 2026 | — |
| MDP Enabling Package 3 - Collections Hub Himalayan Balsam | Awarded / complete | 8 Oct 2026 | — |
| RAF Museum Replacement 4D Theatre AttractionAudio-visual equipment | Planning | 5 Oct 2026 | — |
| Fire Door Replacement and Remedial Works | Awarded / complete | 30 Sept 2026 | — |
| Armoury Racking | Awarded / complete | 12 Jun 2026 | — |
| 24/7 365 IT Security Operations Centre | Awarded / complete | 8 Jun 2026 | — |
| Collections Hub Racking and Shelving | Awarded / complete | 12 Nov 2025 | — |
| Digital Marketing Services - RAF MuseumAdvertising and marketing services | Open | 7 Nov 2023 | £750,000 |
| Security Services - RAF MuseumSecurity services | Open | 28 Sept 2023 | £735,000 |
| Provision of Security ServicesSecurity services | Open | 11 Sept 2023 | — |
| Provision of Quantity Surveyor ServicesQuantity surveying services | Awarded / complete | 7 Nov 2022 | £5,000,000 |
| RAF Museum Cleaning ServicesBuilding-cleaning services | Open | 27 Sept 2021 | £2,350,000 |
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. 8 of 8 published contracts have an end date; 1 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.