Quick answer — Royal Botanical Gardens, KewLast refreshed 14 Feb 2024

At a glance

Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew has awarded £5.2m across 25 suppliers, with 38 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 24% · 0 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 57% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration24%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share57%
Pipeline · open now0
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew is a contracting authority, based in UKI. Tracks 76 published notices and 76 awards on PublicSupply.

76
Notices published
76
Awards
25
Suppliers engaged
2021
First award on file

Spend profile

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

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12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£119k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew — 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)

0

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

Unspecified39 · £5.2m
works29 · £0
services8 · £0

Instrument type

call off25 · £4.4m
contract51 · £814k
Source:Contracts Finder: 39Find a Tender: 37

Awarded contracts · 38 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Principal Contractor - Principal contractor - Heritage (20% VAT)45000000£0active
Principal Contractor - Principal contractor - Commercial (20% VAT)Blakedown Landscapes (SE) Ltd45000000£85k14 Feb 2024active
Principal contractor - Commercial (20% VAT)Blakedown Landscapes (SE) Ltdactive
General Advice on Estates and Property Management - Post-occupancy evaluation services71000000£0active
Principal Contractor - Principal contractor - Heritage (20% VAT)45000000£0active
General Construction Multi Trade - GCMT - Commercial (20% VAT)45000000£0active
General Construction Multi Trade - GCMT - Commercial (20% VAT)45000000£0active
General Construction Multi Trade - GCMT - Capital projects (20% VAT)45000000£0active
Principal Contractor - Principal contractor - Heritage (20% VAT)45000000£0active
Electrical - Control equipment (20% VAT)45000000£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
RE
6 contracts · SME · 17 Aug20 Dec
£1.2m
24% of total
2
YC
10 contracts · SME · 05 Jul22 Nov
£896k
17% of total
3
CC
8 contracts · SME · 05 Jul22 Aug
£799k
15% of total
4
H.
2 contracts · 12 Oct
£731k
14% of total
5
CL
2 contracts · SME · 09 Nov
£379k
7% of total
6
KE
2 contracts · 13 Jul
£335k
6% of total
7
IE
2 contracts · SME · 20 Dec
£188k
4% of total
8
GC
2 contracts · 04 Feb
£150k
3% of total
925
···
17 other suppliers
long tail · 6 SMEs
£525k
10% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
33 contracts
£5.0m
96%
Architecture, engineering
7 contracts
£220k
4%

Activity heatmap

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

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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 Botanical Gardens, Kew 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.

57%
SME supplier share
target 33%
37
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
25
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
UKI
Contact
Jamal Jimenez
Email
J.Jimenez@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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