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OpenStage · planning

Victoria and Albert Museum

Security Services to the Museums Security Consortium

Business ServicesCPV 79710000
Value£140.0m
Deadline
Published13 Jun 2025
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
procurement@vam.ac.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£140.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£151.2m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The V&A is running this preliminary market engagement survey on behalf of the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum Group, and the V&A Museum.

These three organisations currently form a consortium to contract for the provision of security guarding services to their various sites across England.

Currently, we are buying these services from a single provider and that contract will expire in March 2027.

Security services are currently being provided at 15 sites with an approximate total of 245 FTEs.

The contract to the museums consortium currently includes the following elements: • 24/7 Control room services (command and control, CCTV and alarm monitoring) • Entrance guarding and patrols • Key and pass issue • Event security It partially includes the following services at selected sites only: • Behavioural detection analysis • Logistics (deliveries etc)

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05483c
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
032163-2025
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