Museums Galleries Scotland

Contract awards

• Website Design – Protection Through Connection

  Location: Scotland

  Awarded contractPublished 16 Apr, 2026Value £12.50kSource Public Contracts Scotland

  MGS seeks to appoint a web developer to design and deliver a new WordPress-hosted website that will serve as an online resource hub for safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in Scotland. This forms part of the Protection Through Connection: Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland project, launch

  Awarded to Agitprop

• Digitisation of Organisation Health Checker for Museum Futures programme

  Location: Scotland

  Awarded contractPublished 14 Apr, 2026Value £11.50kSource Public Contracts Scotland

  MGS seeks to appoint an individual or organisation to create a digital version of its Organisational Health Checker (“OHC”). A copy of the current OHC will be provided separately to this Invitation to Tender. The appointed contractor will collaborate closely with the Museum Futures team to develop the digital version.

  Awarded to Cairnstone Consultancy Ltd

• Museums Galleries Scotland Literature Review: evidence of impact of museums in the fields of place-making and place-based approaches

  Location: Scotland

  Awarded contractPublished 26 Jan, 2026Value £4.94kSource Public Contracts Scotland

  Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) seeks professional support to produce a literature review on the impact of museums in place-making and place-based approaches. This review will build on MGS’s recent work examining existing evidence and aims to provide an overview of key multidisciplinary studies. MGS invites proposals

  Awarded to DC Research Ltd

• Strategic Evaluation of the Museum Futures Programme

  Location: Scotland

  Awarded contractPublished 9 Oct, 2025Value £47.79kSource Public Contracts Scotland

  MGS is looking to appoint a contractor to support the evaluation of its Museum Futures Programme (the “Programme”). This Programme, which launched in July 2025 and is due to complete in January 2027, is designed to provide essential support for Scotland’s museums and galleries in direct response to the significant and

  Awarded to Social Value Lab

• Creation of anti-oppression training module

  Location: Scotland

  Awarded contractPublished 23 Sept, 2025Value £5.83kSource Public Contracts Scotland

  MGS is looking to appoint a contractor for the creation of an anti-oppression leadership module for its Delivering Change Leadership Strand (referred to in this Invitation to Tender as “the Leadership Strand”). The module must be tailored to the museum sector and will form part of a leadership programme which is antici

  Awarded to ShobaBrown

• Management and maintenance of IT services

  Location: Scotland

  Awarded contractPublished 29 Aug, 2025Value £76.47kSource Public Contracts Scotland

  MGS relies on a stable and well-managed IT infrastructure to support the daily operations of its team, which comprises of 43 end users but has potential to increase up to 50 over the course of the contract. The current managed services contract with an external provider will expire in October 2025, so MGS is now inviti

  Awarded to Mother Technologies Ltd

• Evaluation of Leadership Programme

  Location: Scotland

  Awarded contractPublished 21 Aug, 2025Value £5.83kSource Public Contracts Scotland

  PLEASE NOTE THAT FURTHER DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE INVITATION TO TENDER - SEE ADDITIONAL DOCS SECTION MGS is looking to appoint a contractor for the evaluation of its Delivering Change Leadership Strand. Delivering Change is a collective effort between MGS and partnering museums, galleries, and community groups to

  Awarded to Ben Reid-Howells Consultancy

• Evaluation of Protection through Connection

  Location: Scotland

  Awarded contractPublished 10 Jun, 2025Value £9.50kSource Public Contracts Scotland

  MGS is looking to appoint a contractor for the evaluation of its Protection through Connection project (the “Project”). Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund (“NLHF”), the Project is a pioneering effort to safeguard Scotland’s intangible cultural heritage (“ICH”) through community partnerships with museums and o

  Awarded to Upstream

• Creation of anti-ableism workshops for NLHF Delivering Change Project

  Location: Scotland

  Awarded contractPublished 21 Mar, 2025Value £5.50kSource Public Contracts Scotland

  As part of its Delivering Change project, MGS is currently seeking to appoint a contractor to develop an Anti-Ableism Workshop Series tailored to the museum sector. The workshops will form part of the Museum Transformers and Museum Activists programmes which run from approximately April 2024 – August 2026. MGS particu

  Awarded to Visible Inclusive Accessibility (CIC)

• Evaluation of Creative Minds Fund

  Location: Scotland

  Awarded contractPublished 7 Mar, 2025Value £17.50kSource Public Contracts Scotland

  MGS is looking to appoint a contractor for the evaluation of its Creative Minds Fund. The Fund, launched in 2024 with first round awards due to be announced in March 2025, will support museums and partnering organisations to engage people experiencing mental health issues in creative activity. The successful contractor

  Awarded to Ruthless Research

• Creation of anti-racism workshops for NLHF Delivering Change Project

  Location: Scotland

  Awarded contractPublished 7 May, 2024Value £8.33kSource Public Contracts Scotland

  As part of its NLHF-funded Delivering Change project (https://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/project/delivering-change/) MGS is currently seeking to appoint a contractor to develop an anti-racism workshop series tailored to the museum sector. The workshops will form part of the Museum Transformers programme which

  Awarded to Dorcas Inclusive Education Consultancy