Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£30.6m
12 m spend
£8.3m
Prior 12 m
+270%
YoY change
£331k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Natural History Museum — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£4.1m£8.1m£12m£16mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

36

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

3

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

3

£678k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

services84 · £391.4m
Unspecified153 · £105.4m
goods48 · £64.6m
works21 · £35.5m

Instrument type

contract306 · £596.8m
Source:Find a Tender: 185Contracts Finder: 121

Awarded contracts · 35 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Natural History Museum is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
TS
2 contracts · 28 Oct
£34.0mest.
2
WL
2 contracts · 12 Oct
£30.4mest.
3
CM
2 contracts · 25 Nov
£30.0mest.
4
DL
2 contracts · SME · 01 Nov
£19.2mest.
5
VE
2 contracts · 15 Dec
£17.0m
6
SS
2 contracts · SME · 29 Dec
£8.8mest.
7
FU
2 contracts · SME · 08 Mar
£3.4m
8
SC
£2.0mest.
972
···
64 other suppliers
long tail · 41 SMEs
£36.2m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
23 contracts
£350.8m
61%
Other
81 contracts
£89.5m
16%
Construction works
15 contracts
£44.9m
8%
Office equipment, IT
4 contracts
£25.3m
4%
Architecture, engineering
10 contracts
£23.4m
4%
Furniture, cleaning
1 contract
£20.0m
3%
Transport services
1 contract
£11.7m
2%
Laboratory, scientific
17 contracts
£11.3m
2%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Business, legal, advisory
14
13
0
Other
0
1
1
1
0
Construction works
Office equipment, IT
Architecture, engineering
1
Furniture, cleaning
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

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 · 3 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 3 notices tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

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.

63%
SME supplier share
target 33%
78
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
72
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKI33
Contact
Vicky Lee
Email
v.lee@nhm.ac.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

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.

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