Quick answer — Royal Botanic GardensLast refreshed 18 Oct 2024

At a glance

Royal Botanic Gardens has awarded £81.6m across 118 suppliers, with 14 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 61% · 6 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 14% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration61%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share14%
Pipeline · open now6
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Royal Botanic Gardens is a contracting authority, based in UKI. Tracks 177 published notices and 171 awards on PublicSupply.

177
Notices published
171
Awards
118
Suppliers engaged
2015
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£924k
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£46k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Royal Botanic Gardens — 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)

6

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

Unspecified168 · £75.9m
services3 · £17.5m
works4 · £13.0m
goods2 · £240k

Instrument type

call off54 · £61.4m
contract123 · £45.2m
Source:Contracts Finder: 168Find a Tender: 9

Awarded contracts · 14 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Royal Botanic Gardens is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
RBGKEW1530 - Catering Services Wakehurst55520000£17.0mest.active
GB-LONDON: RBGKEW1334 Freeze-drying centrifugal evaporator Wolf Laboratories Limited38000000£74k18 Oct 2024active
Orchid Festival PlantsWaterdrinker B.V.£240kest.active
Orchid Festival PlantsWaterdrinker B.V.03441000£240k14 Oct 2024active
RBGKEW1308 Expanding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in root fungal colonisation assessmentD-fine GmbH£500kest.active
RBGKEW1308 Expanding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in root fungal colonisation assessmentD-fine GmbH73000000£500k15 Aug 2024active
GB-Reading: RBGKEW1305 - NHP Ground Investigation SurveyConcept Engineering Consultants Ltd71351500£110k15 Jul 2024active
Orchid Festival Plants03441000£0active
GB-LONDON: RBGKEW1334 Freeze-drying centrifugal evaporator 38000000£0active
RBGKEW1308 Expanding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in root fungal colonisation assessment73000000£0active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
JG
£50.0m
61% of total
2
AH
2 contracts · SME · 12 May
£9.9mest.
12% of total
3
CH
1 contract · 21 Oct
£6.0m
7% of total
4
WL
1 contract · 09 Oct
£1.8m
2% of total
5
MS
1 contract · 13 Mar
£1.0m
1% of total
6
DG
2 contracts · 15 Aug
£1.0mest.
1% of total
▼ 100%
7
GS
1 contract · 23 Jan
£850k
1% of total
8
NI
£750k
1% of total
9118
···
110 other suppliers
long tail · 18 SMEs
£9.2m
11% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction materials
3 contracts
£50.0m
49%
Hotel, restaurant, retail
3 contracts
£23.0m
23%
Other
4 contracts
£8.7m
9%
Construction works
17 contracts
£7.5m
7%
Sewage, waste, environment
1 contract
£5.0m
5%
Business, legal, advisory
15 contracts
£4.7m
5%
Electrical machinery
4 contracts
£1.3m
1%
Radio, TV, communications
7 contracts
£1.1m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Construction materials
Hotel, restaurant, retail
Other
Construction works
Sewage, waste, environment
Business, legal, advisory
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 Botanic Gardens 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.

14%
SME supplier share
target 33%
20
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
118
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 14% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKI
Contact
Jamal Jimenez
Email
procurement@kew.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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