Official UK procurement notice
ROG First Light Wayfinding Signage Contractor
Authority: ROG First Light Exhibitions Scenic Engineering Model Contractor (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis procurement exercise is to secure a Wayfinding Signage Contractor to produce wayfinding signage across the Royal Observatory Greenwich site, as part of the ROG First Light Project.
The Wayfinding Signage Contractor will be responsible for delivering and installing the wayfinding signage, as well as the development and installation of the Contractor's Design Portion, across the ROG site, internally and externally. Their responsibilities will include:
- the production, supply and installation of wayfinding signage across the ROG site. This will include signage inside buildings as well as external signage.
- coordinating with the OPOE and OPITU Setworks Principal Contractors at all times, during both offsite and onsite periods
- coordinating with a number of other client-direct works packages
The Wayfinding Signage Contractor will also be responsible for certain Contractor Design Portions.
This will be a two-stage procurement process including a PSQ process from which contractors will be shortlisted. Shortlisted contractors will be invited to Tender. Contractors will be invited to visit site. Full details of the procurement procedure can be found in the procurement documentation.
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- How the procedure runs: Royal Museums Greenwich are inviting contractors to participate in a procurement to provide wayfinding signage for the Royal Observatory Greenwich, as part of the ROG First Light Project. This will be a two-stage procurement process including a PSQ process from which contractors will be shortlisted. Shortlisted contractors will be invited to Tender. Contractors will be invited to visit site. Full details of the procurement procedure can be found in the procurement documentation.
CPV: Museum-exhibition services · Signage
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£220,000
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The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical: 60%
- Commercial: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Commercial
- Technical
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £349,130 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How ROG First Light Exhibitions Scenic Engineering Model Contractor buys Road equipment (CPV 3492), and who usually turns up
ROG First Light Exhibitions Scenic Engineering Model Contractor’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Road equipment (CPV 3492) →
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Half of these awards have an award date within 45 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid25%
2–350%
4–66%
7+19%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate44%
Within ±2%22%
Above estimate33%
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Lot #1CPV 3492Published estimate£220k
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1 bid12%
2–332%
4–642%
7+13%
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Where the award price may land.
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Based on 9 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
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Middle 50%£208k–£221k
Estimate£220k
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| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £86m18 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 5 live · £18m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=3 | |
| £457k4 awards in 36m · last 5 months ago | 1 live · £31k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 38% below n=1 | |
| £607k1 awards in 36m · last 8 months ago | 1 live · £607k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| £1.1m3 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | None on file | at estimate n=2 | |
Hornbeck LtdSME | £910k4 awards in 36m · last 5 months ago | 2 live · £67k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 3% below n=2 |
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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Requests to participate open
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 2 Oct 2026, 13:08 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 13:08 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 28 May 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-093337- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077fb2Find a Tender
- How it runs
Royal Museums Greenwich are inviting contractors to participate in a procurement to provide wayfinding signage for the Royal Observatory Greenwich, as part of the ROG First Light Project. This will be a two-stage procurement process including a PSQ process from which contractors will be shortlisted. Shortlisted contractors will be invited to Tender. Contractors will be invited to visit site. Full details of the procurement procedure can be found in the procurement documentation.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Delta eSourcing- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 12 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Tender submission deadline
- 12 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 5 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
2 Oct 2026 → 28 May 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published24 days ago2 Oct 2026, 13:08 BST
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 10 days5 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 17 days12 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 213 days28 May 2027, 00:00 BST
- Award decision expected byin 214 days28 May 2027, 23:59 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published2 Oct 2026, 13:08 BSTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender