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Belfast City Council

Belfast Stories Experience Design Team

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71221000
Value£1.5m
Deadline24 Mar 2026
Published20 Feb 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 20 Feb 2026ClosedCloses 24 Mar 2026
Who to contact
pdu@belfastcity.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£1.5mtotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This is a large award for Engineering & Architecture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The purpose of this procurement process is to successfully appoint an Experience Design Team (“EDT” or “Designer”) for the Belfast Stories Project.

An interpretive masterplan has been previously completed along with a concept design to RIBA stage 2.

This procurement process is to appoint a team to take the existing interpretive masterplan and concept design and develop them further from RIBA stages 3 to 7.

The overarching interpretive framework is critical to ensuring that the concept of Belfast Stories is fully integrated across all elements of the project including but not limited to the main exhibition.

The exhibition design and its content will be central to delivering an excellent visitor experience and maximising connectivity across the site and into the city.

The Experience Design Team (EDT), is to lead and manage the EDT.

The EDT shall include the DTM disciplines of Interpretative Planner, Exhibition Designer, Visitor Experience Consultant and Curator and shall also include, but is not limited to, Digital Design Engineers, Specialist Lighting and Sound Designers & Engineers , Specialist Display Structural Designers & Engineers, Specialist Display Mechanical and Electrical Designers & Engineers, Digital Lead, Graphic Designer, Specialist Curatorial Team Building Information Modelling (BIM) Designer.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The overarching interpretive framework is critical

The overarching interpretive framework is critical to ensuring that the concept of Belfast Stories is fully integrated across all elements of the project including but not limited to the main exhibition.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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015674-2026
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