Storytelling Tenders
See open storytelling tenders and awarded contracts for the UK public sector.
Storytelling procurement here is mostly heritage and cultural work: interpretation strategies for museums and visitor centres, oral history collection, digital interpretation built into a gallery refit, and standalone storytelling commissions. Councils, museum trusts, national parks and lottery-funded heritage projects are the buyers.
718 notices match on record. 262 are awarded and only 6 are open, so the useful move is reading who won the last interpretation round.
672 results
- Expired contract
English Heritage - Interpretation research
- Closed tenderPublished 7 August 2023
DaDA Building Furniture Package
- Closed tenderPublished 7 August 2023
DaDA Building Furniture Package
- Closed tenderPublished 5 August 2023
Multi Disciplinary Design Team Consultancy for the Hull City Centre Public Realm Improvements, Kingston upon Hull
- Closed tenderPublished 5 August 2023
Multi Disciplinary Design Team Consultancy for the Hull City Centre Public Realm Improvements, Kingston upon Hull
- Closed tenderPublished 26 July 2023
Museum Interpretation, Design and Fit-Out – Christ Church, Maryport
- Closed tenderPublished 14 July 2023
Report to explore options and make recommendations for the digital interpretation of The Slate Lands
- Closed tenderPublished 14 July 2023
Interpretation Delivery for the Skell Valley Project
- Closed tenderPublished 14 July 2023
Provision of an Interpretation Scheme for the Skell Valley Project
- Closed tenderPublished 11 July 2023
Interpretation Design Project - Ham Hill Country Park
- Closed tenderPublished 10 July 2023
Paisley Museum Re-imagined: AV Software – CMS (Content Management System) and creation, design and population of 10 touch screen interactives
- Closed tenderPublished 13 June 2023
Oral Histories RFQ
- Expired contract
GB-London: Black Culture Collective Commissioning Programme 2023
- Expired contract
Early Years Learning and Development Support Worker
- Closed tenderPublished 19 May 2023
Design, production and installation of a virtual capercaillie lek experience for visitors to Balmoral Castle
- Awarded contract
Specialist support and expertise in the detailed design and development of interpretation for Locomotion visitor offer enhancements improvements and 18km walking and cycling along Stockton to Darlington Railway route
- Awarded contract
Business Gateway Argyll and Bute - One to Many and One to One Specialist Support Framework Agreement – 2023 – 2025-7
- Awarded contract
Business Gateway Argyll and Bute - One to Many and One to One Specialist Support Framework Agreement – 2023 – 2025-7
- Expired contract
'You've Got This' Community Voice - Continuing Storytelling
- Expired contract
Data Visualisation plus Storytelling with Data
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about storytelling, heritage interpretation, interpretation strategy, oral history, digital interpretation, museum interpretation, visitor interpretation in the UK public sector.
How do I find storytelling tenders in the UK?
Two routes. Search the portals for live briefs, or work backwards from the buyers who commission interpretation on a project cycle: museum trusts, national parks, council heritage teams. Stotles pulls notices from 100+ portals into one place, so an oral history brief and a visitor centre interpretation project land in the same feed. Platform-wide, 2,135 tenders are open right now.
What kind of work do storytelling contracts cover?
Less marketing than the phrase suggests. Across the 718 notices on record the bulk is heritage and cultural interpretation: interpretation strategies and advisers, oral history collection and transcription, digital interpretation built into a museum or visitor centre refit, and community storytelling commissions. A smaller share sits inside communications and campaign briefs where storytelling is one line of a much wider scope, so read the lot structure before assuming the whole contract is yours to bid for.
What CPV codes are used for storytelling and interpretation contracts?
Three turn up most often. 92500000 (Library, archives, museums and other cultural services) appeared on 8 of the 50 most recent matching notices, 79415200 (Design consultancy services) on 8, and 92312000 (Artistic services) on 6. Tagging is loose, because the same brief can be filed as culture, design, training or community services. Treat the codes as a starting point rather than a filter.
How competitive are storytelling and interpretation tenders?
Small contracts, and few of them live at any one time. Only 6 of the 718 notices on record are open, against 262 already awarded and 30 sitting at pre-tender, so the practical route in is watching pipelines and knowing which consultancy holds the current interpretation work. Across the public sector, 53% of suppliers landed just one to five contracts last year (Stotles 2026 Supplier Benchmark Report).
Who buys storytelling work in the public sector?
Museum and heritage trusts, councils, national parks and cultural agencies, usually inside a lottery-funded capital project or a visitor experience programme. Government communications teams appear too, where storytelling is a strand of a marketing or PR brief. Platform-wide, 0 notices were added in the last seven days, and 2 of the matches here were published in that window.
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