Planning

PME - The provision of a Museum Collections Management System (CMS)

  • Leicester City Council

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-018894

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-050c9e

Published 2 May 2025, 4:25pm



Scope

Description

As an Accredited museums service, Leicester Museums and Galleries uses a specialised Collections Management System (CMS) to manage the information it holds about the objects in its permanent collection and any items that it has on loan, both past and present. We currently hold a wide range of objects in our collection ranging from natural history items, fine art, archaeology, geology, technology, decorative arts, social history, amongst other things.

The Council is seeking to collate information on a solution which will deliver and future proof the current functionality and additionally provide flexibility to exploit the use of new technology where this provides benefit to the business, in relation to providing a Collections Management System (CMS) solution for our Museums Service.

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 April 2026 to 1 April 2031
  • 5 years, 1 day

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 48000000 - Software package and information systems
  • 72300000 - Data services

Contract locations

  • UKF21 - Leicester

Engagement

Engagement deadline

23 May 2025

Engagement process description

Please note this is a Preliminary Market Engagement, it is not a formal invitation to tender.

Suppliers must complete a questionnaire and submit the responses by 22nd May 2025.

To enhance our understanding of the solutions currently available in the market and in addition to the submitted questionnaire, we may invite suitable suppliers who meet the essential requirements identified in the PME document to deliver an overview presentation of their solution and its functionality.

For more information regarding the process, you can access the PME document by following this link:

https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=f5d07211-3027-f011-8136-005056b64545


Contracting authority

Leicester City Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PXRT-5737-VBQD

City Hall (4th Floor), 115 Charles Street

Leicester

LE1 1FZ

United Kingdom

Contact name: Miss Zhiaw Hama

Telephone: +44 1164543503

Email: zhiaw.hama@leicester.gov.uk

Website: https://www.leicester.gov.uk

Region: UKF21 - Leicester

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government