# General Advice on Estates and Property Management - Vacant-land purchase services

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
- Contract winner: [Gerald Eve LLP](/contract-winners/gerald-eve/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £41,500
- Tender value: £60,000
- Award date: 20 December 2022
- Published: 17 January 2023
- Contract start: 28 December 2022
- Contract end: 23 January 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 05edd9e2-d36d-4272-adf1-b0c9bdd6636d-606166
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-bc4f84fc-898c-486e-a440-0f5024ba2dbd

## Description

The New Herbarium Project RBGKWEW1116 RBG Kew currently house one of the largest \(circa 8m\) and most important international collections of dried plant specimens in the world in their extensive existing herbarium buildings at Kew\. There are currently proposals to source a new site for a new purpose-built herbarium\. The purpose of this appointment is to lead in the identification and assist in the evaluation and selection of the most suitable site\. Kew will be responsible for the final evaluation and selection, but the consultant will be required to undertake preliminary work for this exercise\. The evaluation will be based upon a set of pre-agreed selection criteria a long list of potential sites will be prepared \(number to be agreed, maximum 20\) which will then be reduced to a selected shortlist \(number to be agreed, approximately 6\) and a final recommendation made for one of more preferred sites\. This opportunity has been distributed on adamprocure\.co\.uk

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/05edd9e2-d36d-4272-adf1-b0c9bdd6636d-606166)