Pre-tender

Provision of NGS Branded Uniform Garments: PIN - Request for Information

Details

Value
£90,000
Topic
Occupational clothing, special workwear and accessories
Published
20 October 2026

Tender description

National Galleries Scotland (NGS) are looking to engage with the market in respect of our potential contract opportunity for the Provision of NGS Branded Uniform Garments. The Supplier would be required to have an existing off-the-shelf collection of ready-to-wear garments suited for roles in the hospitality and visitor sector. The Supplier must have branding capabilities including print techniques. The Supplier must be able to provide timely delivery services as well as a recycling solution for redundant uniform items. The purpose of this PIN is to gauge interest as well as seek views and information from the marketplace in relation to a potential future contract opportunity. It will also inform the procurement strategy ensuring that any procurement route subsequently selected is attractive to the marketplace and will provide a competitive tendering environment for efficient delivery of any future contract requirements. Suppliers should note that this PIN does not constitute any guarantee or work, it is purely for market research purposes. Lot 1: This is a Request for Information (RFI) only (not an Invitation to Tender). The RFI document is available from the Public Contracts Scotland Website. The deadline for raising any questions in relation to the RFI is 12noon on 3rd November 2026, with the deadline for responding to the RFI being 12noon on Friday 6th November 2026.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published20 October 2026
    Current notice

About the buyer

National Galleries of Scotland is a non-departmental public body and buys as a central government agency. Bids are run under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Open procedure tenders ask bidders for an SPD (Scotland) form. Software support has been bought as a call-off under the Government Commercial Agency's G-Cloud 14 framework.

Specialist art transportation is bought through a four-lot framework with mini-competitions for call-offs.

Over the past 5 years, most of National Galleries of Scotland's contract awards have been in architectural and engineering services, business services and IT services.

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