Arts Council England tenders, awards, and pre-procurement notices.
Arts Council England is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and is the national development agency for arts and culture. A central procurement services team, based in Manchester, oversees buying across the organisation.
Over the past 5 years, most of Arts Council England's contract awards have been in IT services, business services and research and development.
Recent notices from Arts Council England
Browse open tenders, awarded contracts, and pre-procurement documents from Arts Council England.
- Expired contract
Research to understand the resilience, and challenges to this, of Local Authority museums.
- Closed tender
Evaluation of the Canvas multi-Channel network for the arts strategic programme
- Closed tender
The Livelihoods of Visual Arts in England - work, life, money
- Closed tender
Framework of Construction Advisors for Arts Council England’s capital investment
- Expired contract
The Private Investment in Culture Survey 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15
- Expired contract
Theatre in England Research Project
- Expired contract
Research Contract: Disabled people and the arts and cultural sector workforce in England: Understanding trends, barriers and opportunities.
- Closed tender
Random Acts Network Centres programme evaluation
- Closed tender
Framework of financial advisors for arts/cultural organisations
- Closed tender
Assessment of Accreditation Returns
- Expired contract
Redesign and development of the Cultural Education Toolkit
- Expired contract
International activity of arts and cultural organisations
- Expired contract
Arts Council England’s Goal 5 and equality and diversity: Data and evidence review and equality action-planning.
- Expired contract
A feasibility study to determine an operating programme for a new cultural grant funding scheme for Luton Town.
- Expired contract
Career development opportunities for artists and bands in the contemporary popular music sector
- Closed tender
Coach for Agents for Change Programme
- Expired contract
Advocacy and Communications training
- Expired contract
Programme level evaluation of the Cultural Destinations programme
What Arts Council England buys
See a list of Arts Council England's top procurement categories by notice volume over the last five years.
- Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security98£18.9m
- IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support71£5.0bn
- Research and development services and related consultancy services56£10.6m
- Software package and information systems34£7.0m
- Education and training services18£7.8m
- Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services10£3.0m
- Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services8£315.8k
- Construction work6£11.0m
- Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products5£171.8k
- Real estate services4£98.4k
Unlock decision-makers at Arts Council England
Get direct contact details for senior stakeholders at Arts Council England, so you can get your business in front of the people who actually sign off on contracts.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@arts-council-england.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@arts-council-england.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@arts-council-england.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@arts-council-england.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@arts-council-england.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@arts-council-england.gov |
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