Spend profile

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

£28.3m
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£4.3m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
The Trustees of the British Museum — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£7.8m£16m£23m£31mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

4

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
2 recorded contracts worth £46.8m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services22 · £132.5m
Unspecified28 · £79.1m
works4 · £77.7m
goods5 · £6.0m

Instrument type

contract59 · £295.2m
Source:Find a Tender: 31Contracts Finder: 28

Awarded contracts · 5 live

All contracts with a published award notice where The Trustees of the British 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
CM
2 contracts · 14 Mar
£57.8mest.
2
TS
2 contracts · 07 Mar
£35.4mest.
3
LG
2 contracts · SME · 11 Sept
£25.1mest.
4
OA
2 contracts · 11 Sept
£25.1mest.
5
QL
2 contracts · SME · 01 May
£7.4mest.
6
SV
2 contracts · SME · 30 Aug
£2.4mest.
7
CA
2 contracts · SME · 05 Apr
£200kest.

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Architecture, engineering
8 contracts
£123.7m
39%
Other
10 contracts
£97.7m
31%
Business, legal, advisory
5 contracts
£51.4m
16%
Construction works
2 contracts
£42.7m
13%
IT services, software
2 contracts
£1.0m
0%
Medical, pharmaceutical
1 contract
£710k
0%

Activity heatmap

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

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Sept
Oct
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Dec
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Feb
Mar
Apr
May
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Architecture, engineering
28
Other
Business, legal, advisory
Construction works
IT services, software
Medical, pharmaceutical
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.

The Trustees of the British 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.

64%
SME supplier share
target 33%
9
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
7
Distinct suppliers
34%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
0%
Local suppliers (WC postcodes)
0 of 4 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£0 of £136.7m
57%
Postcode coverage
4 of 7 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the WC postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.

Peer benchmark

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

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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
Email
procurement@britishmuseum.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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