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Scope

Reference

PQQ 4727

Description

The Authority invites tenders to provide the works for Belfast Stories Integrated Supply Team (IST) – Main Contract

The contract is for the provision of the delivery of a new building to house the Belfast Stories visitor attraction and creative hub, including new internal and external public spaces at lands bounded by North Street, Union Street, Kent Street and Royal Avenue, Belfast.

Belfast Stories can be summarised as Belfast City Council’s declared ambition to create ‘a unique visitor destination of unprecedented scale and ambition in the heart of the city centre, that will serve as a catalyst for economic, social, and cultural regeneration of the city and the wider region. To respond to this ambitious brief, the project is conceived as a combination of 3 core components:

• Visitor attraction: Stories backed ticketed visitor experience designed to allow people to live their stores, share their stories and tell their stories

• Creative Hub: Media Production Studio, 3x cultural cinemas, and a series of educational workshops and classrooms

• Public Space: The building programme wraps around a large scale urban room at the heart of the scheme, serving as a focal point for gathering and containing the main horizontal and vertical circulation connecting all of the inter-related components of the building. The central space is conceived as being covered, but distinctly external / urban in character, creating an expressly public place where the visitor is readily presented with opportunities to tell and make their story.

Total value (estimated)

• £70,000,000 excluding VAT
• £84,000,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

• 28 August 2026 to 31 March 2031
• 4 years, 7 months, 4 days

Main procurement category

Works

CPV classifications

• 45210000 - Building construction work
• 45212310 - Construction work for buildings relating to exhibitions
• 45300000 - Building installation work
• 45212350 - Buildings of particular historical or architectural interest

Contract locations

• UKN06 - Belfast

Submission

Submission type

Tenders

Tender submission deadline

8 May 2026, 12:00pm

Electronic auction will be used

Yes

Submission address and any special instructions

Tenders may be submitted electronically

Yes

Languages that may be used for submission

English

Award decision date (estimated)

28 August 2026

Award criteria

Other information

Applicable trade agreements

• Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes

Procedure

Procedure type

Competitive flexible procedure

Competitive flexible procedure description

The Contract will be awarded on the basis of the Most Advantageous Tender (MAT).

The MAT will be identified on the basis of the tender with the highest score when applying the price/quality/social value ratio as set out in Tender Stage Documentation.

Documents

Documents to be provided after the tender notice

Contracting authority

Belfast City Council

• Public Procurement Organisation Number: PQXY-5321-CGZM

9-21 Adelaide Street

Belfast

BT2 8DJ

United Kingdom

Email: pdu [at] belfastcity.gov.uk

Region: UKN06 - Belfast

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government

Devolved regulations that apply: Northern Ireland