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Watford Borough Council

GB-Watford: Town Hall Quarter - Museum Cafe

HospitalityCPV 55000000 55300000
Value£100k
Awarded3 Mar 2025
Published29 Jan 2025
RegionEast of England
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£100ktotal contract value
median £606k
this tender£0£7.6m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Hospitality & Catering band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 3,335 valued Hospitality & Catering tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Watford Borough Council (WBC) seeks to appoint a suitable operator for the Town Hall Café which will service The Museum of Watford and the wider Town Hall at WD17 3EX.

The Museum project is funded by the Council and a successful bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

It is part of the Council's wider ambition to regenerate Watford Town Hall and the adjoining Colosseum entertainment venue as part of the Town Hall Quarter, please see this weblink Museum | Watford Town Hall Quarter | Watford, England.

The Café, to be run by an operator, has been envisaged to serve visitors to The Museum of Watford, occupiers of the Innovation and Incubation Hub, users of the large Committee/Community room, Council staff as well as passing footfall.

1this initial notice serves as a registration of interest and also a market engagement exercise for the council to assist in scoping the vision for the Cafe which will be part of the new Museum as part of the Town hall Quarter.

The Café, situated on the ground floor with new punctured openings out to an external terrace facing the Town Square opposite Watford Central Library.

Please read and complete the expression of interest document and submit at the return date.

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Stage
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