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National Gallery

Marketing Automation Platform for the National Gallery

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48445000
Value£316k
Deadline7 Aug 2026
Published8 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 8 Jul 202614 days leftCloses 7 Aug 2026
Who to contact
contracting@nationalgallery.org.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£316ktotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.1m

This is a large award for Software & IT Systems — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

We are looking for an advanced, multi-channel Marketing Automation Platform to deliver improved engagement and significant income uplift.

The platform should be able to intelligently and efficiently leverage our existing CRM data and respond dynamically to customer behaviours to facilitate personalised, persuasive and timely journeys.

The platform must be able to: • Enhance and support our existing tech stack; • Have an off-the-shelf integration with the Tessitura database; or have it on the roadmap for launch within the next 4-5 months at a satisfactory phase; The same platform should either offer a direct integration with our current e-commerce setup or equivalent solutions to leverage e-commerce customer/shop-front data and bridge the gap between our disparate systems, as well as demonstrate the flexibility to accommodate changes we may make to our e-commerce infrastructure.

We require a supplier who is able to expedite and support migration onto their system over a 4-5 month window, providing a customized, comprehensive implementation programme and a sustained level of service to ensure success over the short and mid-term.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

We are looking for an advanced, multi-channel

We are looking for an advanced, multi-channel Marketing Automation Platform to deliver improved engagement and significant income uplift.

02

The platform should be able to intelligently

The platform should be able to intelligently and efficiently leverage our existing CRM data and respond dynamically to customer behaviours to facilitate personalised, persuasive and timely journeys.

03

The platform must be able

The platform must be able to:.

04

Enhance and support our existing tech stack

Enhance and support our existing tech stack;.

05

Have an off-the-shelf integration with the Tessitura

Have an off-the-shelf integration with the Tessitura database; or have it on the roadmap for launch within the next 4-5 months at a satisfactory phase;.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

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%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidCyber Essentials Plus (often mandatory for gov IT)
  • Hold at bidISO 27001 (information security)
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06848e
Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
064189-2026
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