RFP QuestBeta
ClosedStage · tender

Historic Royal Palaces

The Winter Palace at Hampton Court Palace - 2026-2028

Business ServicesCPV 79952000
Value£1.4m
Deadline19 Aug 2025
Published25 Jul 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 25 Jul 2025ClosedCloses 19 Aug 2025
Who to contact
Sarah White
sarah.white@hrp.org.uk
02081329662

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£1.4mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

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.

Match for your company
Sign up free to see how well this tender matches your company — the score, the signals that align, and where the gaps are.
The brief

Please refer to attached documentation for a Brief, Specification and further details.

INVITATION TO TENDER DETAILS THE WINTER PALACE – CHRISTMAS AT HAMPTON COURT PALACE 2026-2028 We are running a tender process with the intention of awarding a contract for the provision of a Creative Partner for Development and Production and are inviting suitably experienced / qualified organisations to tender.

This procurement will follow public procurement regulations (Procurement Act 2023) and will be a two-stage procurement.

Stage 1 – Expressions of Interest and Procurement Specific Questionnaire Stage 2 – Invitation to Tender (shortlisted suppliers only) Event Dates: Christmas period – 2026, 2027, 2028.

HRP’s requirements: Historic Royal Palaces is tendering for a Creative Partner for Development and Production of our Christmas Experience at Hampton Court Palace (HCP).

We are looking to develop a new high-quality multi-generational event that will establish Hampton Court Palace as an essential component of visitors’ Christmas tradition.

Specifically, we are looking for a creative partner who can design and deliver all elements of this experience.

Including but not limited to: decorative scheme, large scale 3D installations, interactive activities, live performance, digital/AV.

Please refer to the draft Specification of Requirements which is subject to update and revision for full details Please ensure you have completed the full Procurement Specific Questionnaire as part of your stage 1 submission.

Budget: The value of the contract is estimated at £1,401,000 over 3 years.

Exclusion criteria: Please refer to the Procurement Specific Questionnaire for our conditions of participation and qualifying questions.

Responses to Invitation to Tender: All responses to the tender must be received by HRP by 15th August 2025 at 5.00pm and must be submitted electronically via our E-tendering system – Delta.

Suppliers can register here https://www.delta-esourcing.com/register/ Delta Registration: Suppliers will need to register on Delta in order to participate in the tender process.

The Access Code for this tender box is P886U7972W Should any Tenderer experience issues with registering or using the Delta service, please contact the Delta Helpdesk on 0800 923 9236.

Central Digital Platform Registration: You must also register on the government’s Central Digital Platform www.gov.uk/find_tender (you only need to do this once).

Instructions can be found within the attached documentation Tender documents: The tender process will be available through HRP’s e-tendering system, Delta e-Sourcing.

Tender documents will be made available to all on Delta.

Documents are planned to be issued on w/c 18th August 2025 For the avoidance of doubt HRP reserves the right to negotiate the contractual terms with any preferred supplier(s) or not to award a contract For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-East-Molesey:-Event-services./P886U7972W To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/P886U7972W

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Specifically, we are looking for a creative

Specifically, we are looking for a creative partner who can design and deliver all elements of this experience.

02

All responses to the tender must

All responses to the tender must be received by HRP by 15th August 2025 at 5.00pm and must be submitted electronically via our E-tendering system.

03

Suppliers will need to register on Delta

Suppliers will need to register on Delta in order to participate in the tender process.

04

Should any Tenderer experience issues with registering

Should any Tenderer experience issues with registering or using the Delta service, please contact the Delta Helpdesk on 0800 923 9236.

05

You must also register on the government’s

You must also register on the government’s Central Digital Platform www.gov.uk/find_tender (you only need to do this once).

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

Buyer intelligence

Make the case to bid

Reveal who to approach at Historic Royal Palaces, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.

Deep dive · beta

The full intelligence dossier

Our agent reads Historic Royal Palaces’s accounts, hunts live signals, finds the people who decide — and hands you a bid strategy plus a go-to-market influence plan, including what your team should post this week. You approve every paid step.

Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-056604
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
043015-2025
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

Market context

Who wins this kind of work

The suppliers and buyers around this opportunity — drawn from official award data. Drag to orbit; click a node to explore.

Top suppliers & buyers in Business Services

Scroll to explore the market network

Historic Royal Palaces’s tender network

Assembling the network…

Also open now

Similar open tenders

Media Buying and Marketing Support 2026

Hull College

Closes 3 Aug 2026Business Services
Value not publishedValue

Design, Organisation and Delivery of Urban and Rural Christmas Events 2026

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council

Closes 24 Jul 2026Business Services
Value not publishedValue