PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

British Museum Western Range Competition to find an Architect-Led Design Team

The Trustees of the British Museum · published 10 Oct 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID17af502a-07be-4cd1-8794-2c3a90e3a96c-867670
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-a0e6ef2f-78bb-4845-9ea3-fa37bcc04a30
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-178652
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£28,286,352
award field
Tender value
£47,477,472
tender field
Procurement method
Restricted procedure
Category
services
CPV
71200000
Architectural and related services
Delivery
London, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Please note this is a Contract Award Notice to announce the conclusion of the procurement it is not a new opportunity. The British Museum is delighted to launch this international competition to choose a visionary, architect-led design team to work with the Museum to develop an extraordinary design for a significant part of its Bloomsbury site: The Western Range. This is an important commission to re-envisage and transform key parts of the main, iconic site in Bloomsbury. This will be the Museum's biggest building project since the 1820s, when work commenced on the original quadrangle. The ambition is significant: to restore the Western Range and, in so doing, reimagine a third of the existing gallery area, deliver improved collections storage and create new amenities to enhance the visitor experience, making the collection as accessible as possible to all the Museum's audiences.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release10 Oct 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published10 Sept 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published11 Sept 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2036
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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Published name only

Lina Gotmeh

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Published name only

Ove Arup & Partners Limited

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 10 Oct 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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