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The anticipated award criteria are set out in this notice.\nScores from Stage One don't carry over in any way to Stage Two.\nPlease note that whilst this section is correct to the best our knowledge, we reserve all our rights under the Procurement Act 2023 including the right to vary the process and the right to revise the award criteria between stages.\nAt this Stage One of the procurement process you are invited to complete and return a Stage One Tender. We will evaluate Stage One Tenders to determine which suppliers will proceed to the second tender stage at Stage Two. \nStage Two suppliers will be required to sign a non disclosure agreement in order to receive the full specification and appendices. Stage Two includes site visits to be held on dates to be confirmed. It will be mandatory that each tenderer attends a site visit. \nAll Stage Two tenders submitted must be capable of acceptance without the need for negotiation, fine tuning or value engineering. \nWe do not anticipate conducting any negotiation during this procurement process. 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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.\nSecurity services are currently being provided at 15 sites with an approximate total of 245 FTEs.\nThe contract to the museums consortium currently includes the following elements:\n•\t24/7 Control room services (command and control, CCTV and alarm monitoring)\n•\tEntrance guarding and patrols\n•\tKey and pass issue\n•\tEvent security\nIt partially includes the following services at selected sites only:\n•\tBehavioural detection analysis\n•\tLogistics (deliveries etc)" }, { "releaseID": "008560-2026", "releaseDate": "2026-01-30T15:14:58Z", "releaseTag": [ "planning" ], "value": "Security tender invites for the Natural History Museum and V&A are coming soon! We are giving advance notice that on 01 April 2026 we will be posting a Tender Notice to kickstart a procurement process for security services to our organisations. \nThis is not a call for competition, just an update with our timeline for the procurement process.\nThis will be a single contract for a lead supplier to deliver the services. The contract will include the following services at a number of sites:\n• 24/7 Control room services (command and control, CCTV and alarm monitoring)\n• Security guarding and patrols\n• Key and pass issue\n• Event security\n• Logistics (deliveries etc)\nMore information will be available in the pack once we go live on 01 April 2026. Unfortunately due to market engagement rules we can't discuss this any further with individual suppliers. All the information in this notice is accurate to the best of our knowledge but is subject to amendment between now and April as we develop our tender pack.\nThe current contract is held by a consortium comprising the V&A, NHM and Science Museum Group. The Science Museum Group has decided to leave the consortium and proceed alone for the re-tendering of its security services. 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