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National Museums NI

ID 6231332 - National Museums NI - Conservation and Restoration of Maritime Collections

Recreation & CultureCPV 92500000
Value£400k
Deadline22 Sept 2026
Published21 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 21 Aug 202626 days leftCloses 22 Sept 2026
Who to contact
SSDAdmin.CPD@finance-ni.gov.uk

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How to submit
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Contract value in context
£400ktotal contract value
median £130k
this tender£0£4.8m

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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The brief

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.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

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