Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Mtec Warehousing Limited SME
- Value
- £46,996
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Recreation, culture & sport · Services provided by authors, composers, sculptors, entertainers and other individual artists (CPV 92312200)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 009057-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date22 Jan 2026
- Published2 Feb 2026Published 11 days after the contract date
Description
(RBG Kew) Wakehurst are working with the Henry Moore Foundation to deliver an exhibition of Henry Moore works at Wakehurst from June 2026 - May 2027. The exhibition comprises 4 large scale outdoor works throughout the gardens at Wakehurst, and up to an additional 4 new commissioned artworks. The Henry Moore Foundation will loan works of Relief No. 1, Reclining Connected Forms, Reclining Figure and Mother and Child: Block Seat.
About the supplier
Mtec Warehousing Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03986255).