Pre-Procurement Notice - Framework Agreement for Art Transportation

Tender description

This is an early engagement notice to notify potentially interested organisations that the Barbican Art Gallery (on behalf of the City of London Corporation) will shortly be launching a procurement process to establish a forthcoming Framework Agreement for an Art Transportation Service to cover its requirements domestically and internationally. The Framework Agreement shall be utilised to award work for the packing and transport of fine art, objects, storage of works, entire exhibitions and exhibition fixtures and fittings from Barbican Sites; to and/or from any site at which an exhibition is taking place; and to and/or from the premises of any owner/lender of a work. Other departments of the City of London Corporation will have the ability to utilise the Framework Agreement for the provision of any, or all, of the requirements which are the same as, or similar to those services specified in the forthcoming procurement documents. It is currently envisaged that tenders will be invited during May 2020, with prospective bidders being given up to a 5 week period to respond to the opportunity. Please note that a separate contract notice will be published in due course (May 2020), with the procurement process being undertaken via the electronic tendering system 'Capital eSourcing'. Interested organisations will need to register their interest on the Capital eSourcing system once the opportunity is live in order to participate and registration is free (via the URL provided below). The procurement documents will be available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at URL: https://www.capitalesourcing.com