Contract

Provision of a Visitor Centre and Tour Operator for Belfast City Cemetery

  • Belfast City Council

F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-021603

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-049a68 (view related notices)

Published 15 May 2025, 10:44am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Belfast City Council

9-21 Adelaide Street

Belfast

BT2 8DJ

Email

cps@belfastcity.gov.uk

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKN06 - Belfast

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.belfastcity.gov.uk

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

one.5) Main activity

General public services


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Provision of a Visitor Centre and Tour Operator for Belfast City Cemetery

Reference number

T2540

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 92000000 - Recreational, cultural and sporting services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

Belfast City Council requires an organisation, or collective of organisations or individuals to work with the Council to promote and operate the visitor centre, including operation of walking tours of Belfast’s City Cemetery.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

  • 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKN06 - Belfast
Main site or place of performance

Belfast City Cemetery, 511 Falls Road, Belfast, BT12 6DE.

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Belfast City Council requires an organisation, or collective of organisations or individuals to work with the Council to promote and operate the visitor centre, including operation of walking tours of Belfast’s City Cemetery. The following will be required under the contract:

• Operation and management of an accessible public building

• Provision of specialist adult workshops (Genealogy, Archaeology Stone carving,

Biodiversity skills)

• Provision of educational and youth events

• Operation of walking tours of the site & any associated commercial activity

• Marketing and Communications

• Programming events - Although not a requirement of this tender, the successful Bidder will

be encouraged to come forward with their own programming ideas

two.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion - Name: Implementation Plan / Weighting: 10

Quality criterion - Name: Proposed Approach to Service Delivery / Weighting: 10

Quality criterion - Name: Staff Resourcing, Sub-contractors and Workload Planning / Weighting: 10

Quality criterion - Name: Marketing and Promotion / Weighting: 10

Quality criterion - Name: Project Management and Reporting / Weighting: 10

Quality criterion - Name: Social Value / Weighting: 15

Price - Weighting: 35

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: Yes

Description of options

See Schedule 1 of tender documents.

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2025/S 000-001612


Section five. Award of contract

Contract No

T2540

Title

Provision of a Visitor Centre and Tour Operator for Belfast City Cemetery

A contract/lot is awarded: No

five.1) Information on non-award

The contract/lot is not awarded

No tenders or requests to participate were received or all were rejected


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

No tenders received.

Opportunity will be retendered in 2025.

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Royal Courts of Justice

Chichester Street

Belfast

BT1 3JF

Country

United Kingdom