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National Museum of the Royal Navy

Appointment of Guidebook Publisher 2025 (Second Issue)

Print & PublishingCPV 22000000
Value£206k
Deadline18 Aug 2025
Published23 Jul 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 23 Jul 2025ClosedCloses 18 Aug 2025
Who to contact
Dave Hartley
procurement@nmrn.org.uk
+442392891370

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£206ktotal contract value
median £92k
this tender£0£2.4m

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The brief

The National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) are seeking through this tender process to appoint a supplier to produce and print its range of souvenir guidebooks for a 5-year period commencing in September 2025.

This appointment will be contracted to the NMRN Trading Company, with the procurement undertaken by NMRN Operations.

The contractor should be able to undertake both the design and printing elements.

Examples of our key objectives include: - To maximise commercial revenue through sales of the guidebooks at all physical NMRN sites and through the digital journey. - The NMRN are progressing a new brand redevelopment that will launch in 2025, of which at the point of reprint, the guidebooks will need to embody, increasing and extending our brand awareness. - To enhance the visitor experience whilst on site. - To contribute to the NMRN's overall interpretation strategy, as articulated within its master narrative All details of the guidebooks required to be published under this tender are included within the ITT itself.

This includes setting out your pricing proposals.

The NMRN are not accepting physical examples of guidebooks, only PDF examples are to be sent alongside submissions on the tender deadline stated on this advert.

Clarifications are to be sent to tenders@nmrn.org.uk

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The contractor should be able to undertake

The contractor should be able to undertake both the design and printing elements.

02

The NMRN are progressing a new brand

The NMRN are progressing a new brand redevelopment that will launch in 2025, of which at the point of reprint, the guidebooks will need to embody, increasing and extending our brand awareness.

03

All details of the guidebooks required

All details of the guidebooks required to be published under this tender are included within the ITT itself.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
042401-2025
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