Fine Art Transportation and Storage Framework for National Gallery and others
Estimated value
—
Awarded value
£23.0m
Awarded 31 Mar 2026
Suppliers
21
21 SME
Lots
4
4 awarded
Published
22 Apr 2026
Description
Transportation of fine art and other objects with the collections or borrowed from other lenders for the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, Historic Royal Palaces and the Wallace Collection. Other major museums and galleries may choose to use the framework.
Scope
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-05db9c
- Commercial tool
- Standalone contract
- Contract dates
- 31 Mar 2026 to 31 Mar 2028Possible extension to 31 Mar 2030
options to extend to a maximum four years subject to performance
- CPV classifications
- 63520000
- Contract locations
- UK, United Kingdom
Award criteria
Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.
| Name | Description | Type | Weighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resources | — | quality | 15.00% |
| Planning | — | quality | 15.00% |
| Operations | — | quality | 15.00% |
| Task Examples | — | quality | 5.00% |
| Price | — | price | 50.00% |
| Resources | — | quality | 20.00% |
| Operations | — | quality | 20.00% |
| Task Example | — | quality | 10.00% |
| Price | — | price | 35.00% |
| Task Example | — | quality | 15.00% |
| Price | — | price | 30.00% |
| Resources | — | quality | 25.00% |
| Planning | — | quality | 25.00% |
| Operations | — | quality | 25.00% |
| Price | — | price | 20.00% |
Submission & procedure
- Procedure
- Competitive flexible procedure
Award details· 4 awards
Awarded supplier(s), contract period and value as published in the award notice.
Awarded value
£15.2m
Award date
31 Mar 2026
Contract start
03 May 2026
Contract end
31 Mar 2028
Awarded to
Lots · 4 total
Divisions of the contract. Each lot can be awarded separately.
| Lot | Title | Est. value | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Land Transportation in Great Britain | £1.7m | complete |
| 2 | UK & International Transportation | £2.6m | complete |
| 3 | Complex International Transportation | £15.2m | complete |
| 4 | Medium and Long Term Storage | £3.5m | complete |