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Belfast Stories - Story Engine

Upcoming United Kingdom IT services

Buyer Belfast City Council

24 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Deadline open for 35 days
  3. Awarded pending

Bidding window

34 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 26 and 36 days, based on 1,908 notices of the last two years.

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Summary

Machine-generated summary

Belfast Stories seeks an experienced supplier to design, build and support a digital platform known as the 'Stories Engine'. The platform must support story collection and preservation, community participation, archive integration, search and discovery, and information management including consent and participation considerations. It must also cover governance of data management and enable public access points and satellite opportunities. The contract encompasses the design, development and ongoing support of the platform serving the Belfast Stories initiative.

Description

Belfast Stories is seeking to procure an experienced supplier to design, build and support a digital platform known as the ‘Stories Engine’ that supports: • Story collection and preservation • Community participation • Archive integration • Search and discovery • Information management including consent and participation considerations • Governance on data management • Public access points and satellite opportunities

Bid or no-bid?

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    The register holds nothing on this. The official documents will.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in IT services.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    24 days left.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    The register holds nothing on this. The official documents will.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 31 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

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Belfast City Council

United Kingdom

notices in the register
31
awards
12
awarded in total
€1.5M

Who wins its contracts

Moderately concentrated
different companies won its awards
9
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
45%

Based on 11 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, IT services - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
SOFTCAT PLC 49 €110.6M Oct 2026
Computacenter 47 €12.6M Oct 2026
COMPUTACENTER (UK) LIMITED 45 €9.6M Oct 2026
PHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED 35 €263.3M Oct 2026
Insight Direct (UK) Ltd 23 €5.4M Sep 2026

Based on 1252 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

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Market context

open now in IT services
3,278
median open notice
€500,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · IT services

different companies won awards here
689
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
11%
buyers awarded contracts here
383

Based on 1,252 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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