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OpenStage · planning

Swindon Borough Council

Catering for STEAM - Museum of The Great Western Railway

HospitalityCPV 55500000
Value£3.6m
Deadline
Published28 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
Mr Ian Surtees
isurtees@swindon.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£3.6mtotal contract value
median £606k
this tender£0£7.6m

This is a large award for Hospitality & Catering — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 3,335 valued Hospitality & Catering tenders in our corpus.

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Swindon Borough Council has published 10 Hospitality & Catering notices, about every 7 months. On that rhythm the next one is expected around March 2027.

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The brief

Swindon Borough Council is seeking to explore future options for the delivery of conferencing, banqueting, special events and café catering at STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon.

The Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) questionnaire have been produced to enable Swindon Borough Council to engage with potential suppliers and to understand the market and the potential interest in this opportunity.

Any information provided will only be used for research purposes.

The supporting questionnaire does not constitute an Invitation to Tender process, and will not be judged against any criteria, nor will it inform any potential tender process in the future, and no award of any contract will be made as part of this process.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ee83
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
082173-2026
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