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Belfast Stories Main Works Integrated Supply Team (IST) — Belfast City Council | UKGovscan
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OPENTender notice (UK4) · Belfast City CouncilRef ocds-h6vhtk-05473b
Belfast Stories Main Works Integrated Supply Team (IST)
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Contract Value
£70,000,000
excluding VAT · £84,000,000 including VAT · Above the relevant threshold
The submission deadline passed on 20 May 2026, 0:00pm.
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.
9-21 Adelaide Street, Belfast, BT2 8DJ, United Kingdom
Type of body
Public authority - sub-central government
Devolved rules
Northern Irish devolved regulations apply
Suppliers
No supplier information available.
Lots
This procurement was divided into 1 lots, each awarded separately.
Lots
1
Combined Lot Value
£70,000,000
Lot
Value
Status
Lot 1
Aug 2026 – Mar 2031
£70,000,000
active
Award criteria
Weightings from the notice.
Quality Submission
Price Submission(price)
Social Value Submission
Key Dates
Published
24 September 2025
Tender Open
-
Tender Deadline
20 May 2026
Award Date
-
Contract Start
-
Contract End
-
Planned term
28 August 2026 – 31 March 2031
Notice Amendments
Changes the buyer published to this notice after it first appeared.
Amendment 059206-2025
Anticipated publication date is 29th November 2025
Procurement Details
Method
Open — any supplier may bid
Method Details
Competitive flexible procedure
Route to market
Restricted or negotiated
Main category
Works
Category
Building construction work
Delivery location
UK, UKN06
Open under
WTO Government Procurement Agreement
Buyer Reference
PQQ 4727
Legal Basis
Procurement Act 2023
CPV Codes
45210000 – Building construction work; 45212310 – Construction work for buildings relating to exhibitions; 45300000 – Building installation work; 45212350 – Buildings of particular historical or architectural interest