01 Procurement
Tender overview
- Buyer
- Belfast City Council
- Status
- Complete
- Procurement method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Category
- services
- CPV classification
- Not supplied
- Tender period
- Not supplied — 24 March 2026
Description
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.
This page represents one OCDS contracting process. Notices can be revised over time. Values may be estimates, award values or contract values and should be read with their displayed stage and date.
02 Awards and contracts
Published award records
Belfast Stories Experience Design Team
- Awarded
- 15 July 2026
- Award value
- £1,736,159.25
- Suppliers
- 1
- Signed contract
- Not supplied
03 Organisations
Buyers, suppliers and other parties
Belfast City Council
9-21 Adelaide Street, Belfast, UKN06, BT2 8DJ, United Kingdom
GB-PPON PQXY-5321-CGZMRalph Appelbaum Associates
80 Goswell Road, London, UKI43, EC1V 7DB, United Kingdom
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04 Provenance
Source for this process
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