ID 6231332 - National Museums NI - Conservation and Restoration of Maritime Collections
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This sits in the upper-middle of the Repair & Maintenance band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.
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National Museums NI seeks to appoint an ICON-accredited (ACR status or equivalent) Supplier to undertake conservation on each of the four priority maritime vessels Mary Joseph, Children’s Hope, The Fancy and The Result.
The conservation work on Mary Joseph and Children’s Hope will commence on award of contract.
The conservation work on The Fancy will commence in April 2027 while conservation work on The Result which is broken down into Phase 1 and Phase 2 will commence in September 2027.
The commencement of Phase 2 will be dependant on budgets and NMNI operational requirements.
Please see the CfT documents for details.
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- tender · Open
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- 079827-2026
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