Quick answer — ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUMLast refreshed 17 Dec 2025

At a glance

ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM has awarded £5.6m across 7 suppliers, with 16 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 30% · 7 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 11% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration30%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share11%
Pipeline · open now7
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM is a contracting authority, based in UKI71. Tracks 36 published notices and 27 awards on PublicSupply.

36
Notices published
27
Awards
7
Suppliers engaged
2016
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£45k
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£750k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£1mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

7

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services10 · £8.9m
Unspecified26 · £636k

Instrument type

contract36 · £9.6m
Source:Contracts Finder: 24Find a Tender: 12

Awarded contracts · 16 live

All contracts with a published award notice where ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM is the contracting authority.

downloadExport CSV
TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Evaluation Consultant - Inspiring Everyone: RAF Museum Midlands Development ProgrammeMEL RESEARCH LIMITED£45k17 Dec 2025active
Collections Hub Racking and ShelvingDexion Material Handling Ltd t/a CSI£138kpending
Digital Marketing Services - RAF Museum79340000£0active
Digital Marketing Services - RAF Museum79340000£750kest.active
Security Services - RAF Museum79710000£0active
Security Services - RAF Museum79710000£735kest.active
Provision of Security Servicesclosed
Provision of Security Servicesactive
Provision of Security Services79710000£0active
Provision of Quantity Surveyor ServicesGreenwood Projects Ltd71324000£5.0mest.active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
GP
2 contracts · 27 Oct
£1.7mest.
30% of total
2
CC
2 contracts · 27 Oct
£1.7mest.
30% of total
3
AA
£1.7mest.
30% of total
4
KS
1 contract · 30 Sept
£453k
8% of total
5
DM
£138k
2% of total
6
MR
1 contract · SME · 17 Dec
£45k
1% of total
New
7
AT
1 contract · 27 Oct
£0
0% of total

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Architecture, engineering
7 contracts
£15.0m
77%
Sewage, waste, environment
1 contract
£2.4m
12%
Business, legal, advisory
6 contracts
£1.9m
10%
Other
5 contracts
£183k
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Architecture, engineering
Sewage, waste, environment
Business, legal, advisory
Other
0
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 · 0 in 90 d

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

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

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.

11%
SME supplier share
target 33%
1
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
7
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 11% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKI71
Companies House
RC000922
Charity no.
1197541
Contact
Paul Hudson-Knight
Email
Tender.returns@rafmuseum.org

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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