AwardedAwarded 25 June 2026

OGH Beta Principal Contractor

Natural History Museum · Local or regional public body

In brief

Natural History Museum awarded construction and leisure and events work to Sam Forster Associates Ltd on 25 June 2026.

The notice gives a value of £140,000 excluding VAT.

The contract runs for 3 months, starting 29 May 2026.

The buyer says it is suitable for small and medium-sized businesses.

Built from the notice's own fields. Always check the official notice before you bid.

What the notice says

The Old General Herbarium (OGH) Beta Project is a light touch refurbishment of a section of the OGH gallery to bring it back into public display for the first time since 1948. The project will install a temporary pop-up display opening in September 2026. The Museum is running a competition for the provision of Principal Contractor services for the refurbishment and fit-out works in the gallery. In order to access the tender documents for the OGH Beta Principal Contractor tender exercise, all tenderers must complete the NDA available in the SQ stage document library. The NDA must be signed by an appropriate representative of the tendering company and returned to the Museum for countersignature. Once the NDA has been completed by both parties, it will be sent to tenderers for record keeping. The tenderer will then be added to the Tenderbox stage, where the tender documents will be made available from the 30th April 2026.

Who won

WinnerValueDates
Sam Forster Associates Ltd (SME)£187,956
29 June 2026 to 31 August 2026

Values as the award notice gives them, excluding VAT where stated.

Timeline

  1. Tender notice · UK4, notice 024414-2026
  2. Contract details notice · UK7, notice 065968-2026

About the buyer

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Awards

22

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From notice 024414-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 18 March 2026, last updated 14 July 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.