At a glance
The Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum has awarded £64.8m across 5 suppliers, with 3 live contracts.
Why: Top supplier share 98% · 3 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 50% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.
About this buyer
Mission, scope and statutory context.
The Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a contracting authority, based in UKI3. Tracks 14 published notices and 11 awards on PublicSupply.
Spend profile
Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.
Contract pipeline
Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.
Planned
0
Open (bidding)
3
Awarded (90d)
0
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 3 live
All contracts with a published award notice where The Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V&A Gilbert Galleries - Design | — | £240kest. | — | active | |
| V&A Gilbert Galleries - Design | — | 71220000 | £0 | — | active |
| V&A East Museum Galleries Design | Studio JA Projects Ltd | £170kest. | — | active | |
| V&A East Museum Galleries Design | Studio JA Projects Ltd | 71220000 | £171k | 08 Aug 2022 | active |
| V&A East Museum Galleries Design | — | 71220000 | £0 | — | active |
| V&A Storehouse Furniture, Fittings and Equipment (FF&E) | Portsdown Office Limited | £500kest. | — | active | |
| V&A Storehouse Furniture, Fittings and Equipment (FF&E) | Portsdown Office Limited | 39100000 | £500k | 29 Jan 2022 | active |
| V&A Storehouse Furniture, Fittings and Equipment (FF&E) | — | 39100000 | £0 | — | active |
| GB-London: V&A National Art Library Review | Contract not awarded | 79410000 | £0 | 07 May 2021 | active |
| GB-London: V&A National Art Library Review | — | 79410000 | £0 | — | active |
Top suppliers · by total award value
Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.
Category spend breakdown
By CPV division · lifetime awards
Activity heatmap
Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.
Commercial & procurement leadership
Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.
Curated leadership roster
Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.
Modifications · 0 in 90 d
Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.
No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.
The Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.
Compliance & transparency
FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.
FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion
Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.
SME & social value
Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.
target 33%
Peer benchmark
vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.
Compare against the peer group
£149 / seat / month. Configurable peer groups, rolling trendlines, and CSV / PDF exports for board packs.
News mentions
Major UK press & trade publications.
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Statutory & accountability
Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.
Identifiers & contact
- Type
- Contracting authority
- Region
- UKI3
- procurement@vam.ac.uk
Board & accountable officers
Accountable officer + board roster
Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.
Resources
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