2023_Arts - Transport and Logistics of British Council’s Visual Arts Domestic and International Loans

Tender description

This Invitation to tender requests transport agents to submit applications for British Council’s transport tender framework for international visual arts loans and/or domestic visual arts loans. The framework will be active from January 2024 –January 2028.<br /><br />The British Council works with partners to organise exhibitions internationally. These exhibitions cover a wide range of disciplines and vary in size and budget providing opportunities for museums and galleries locally and around the world to engage with the best of contemporary British art.<br /><br />There are artworks from the Collection on loan to other British Council Offices internationally. Artworks are returned to the Collection at the end of the loan period.<br /><br />As part of collections management, artworks will need to be collected and returned from conservation studios; commercial storage and the British Council also manages a number of long loans which may require deinstallation and collection and/or transfer to another location.<br /><br />British Council is interested in working with transport agents that have the ability to deliver museum quality standards of logistics for fine art exhibitions across a range of locations around the world. Transport agents are expected to be able to work within the guidelines as stipulated in the Tender.<br />