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Integrated Museum Management System (IMMS)

Portsmouth City Council · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

Portsmouth City Council's (PCC) Museums service is seeking to procure an Integrated Museum Management System to fully manage and help us build and expand upon the opportunities for improving the Museum and visitor services for both residents and visitors to this great and historic city. Whilst we have a policy to offer, wherever possible, a free service for residents, we are looking to increase revenue opportunities, particularly where bookings, events and online merchandise sales are concerned to fund further improvements and opportunities to expand and improve the museum offering. We recognise the experience and innovation that suppliers can bring to these services. As such PCC would welcome your organisation's market information, which will be used to enable PCC to draw up a high-quality specification that meets the needs of our museum and visitor services. We currently have a number of systems that are either heading towards the end of their contracts or are now obsolete and no longer fit for purpose. We are therefore looking to find, if possible, one system that can provide the following functions: - Group and event booking - Stock control and ordering - Tills and payments - On-line shop - Ticket sales - Marketing - Reporting To this end our aims are to: - Improve online presence for museums to improve both ticket and merchandise sales - Improve sales with integrated payments - Managing room hire, events and group bookings with the ability to pay on-line or to be invoiced - Promote and increase revenue into the Museum Service - SaaS first is our strategic position - Must be GDPR compliant - data can only be stored in UK data warehouses - Capita Pay360 is our corporate payment system which would like to be integrated into any solution if at all possible

Classification

  • CPV48000000 — Software package and information systems

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
P00005125
Status
planning
Main Procurement Category
goods

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
planning

Contract period

Ends
31 Mar 2029, 23:59
Starts
1 Apr 2026, 00:00

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKJ31
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
48000000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Software package and information systems

Planning and budget

Documents

Entry 1
Id
050004-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
20 Aug 2025, 08:56

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Status
scheduled
Due
19 Sept 2025, 23:59
Description
We recognise the experience and innovation that suppliers can bring to services. As such PCC would welcome your organisation's market information, which will be used to enable PCC to draw up a high-quality specification that meets the needs of our museum and visitor services. A questionnaire for your completion is available via our In-tend eSender system - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/portsmouthcc/aspx/home. Please complete the sections that relate to the services that you provide. Subject to the response PCC may wish to engage with suppliers further in an informal discussion which we are planning will take place week commencing (precise timings to be confirmed). This is purely a market consultation and is in no way an indication of the selection of your organisation or a guarantee of future work. Only suppliers with established systems provided to similar organisations will be invited to further market engagement. Organisations participating in the market consultation will not have any advantage over organisations who do not participate in this process. Similarly, organisations not participating in the market consultation will not be disadvantaged.

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-PPON-PCNL-5714-PRZV
Name
Portsmouth City Council

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKJ31
Country
GB
Locality
Portsmouth
Postal Code
PO1 2AL
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Civic Offices, Guildhall Square

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Description
Public authority - sub-central government

Identifier

Id
PCNL-5714-PRZV
Scheme
GB-PPON

Contact

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Portsmouth · UKJ31 · PO1 2AL · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKJ31 · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

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  1. ocds-h6vhtk-058ae4-2025-08-20T08:56:48+01:00Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ·