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
- Closed tenderPublished 5 June 2017
This Exploited Land of Iron Interpretation
- Expired contract
GBC JD Guildford Museum Interpretation Consultancy - AWARD
- Closed tenderPublished 4 May 2017
Project Facilitator: Recording the Bay
- Expired contract
Cultural event organisation services
- Closed tenderPublished 4 May 2017
RFQ for Interpretation Space for the North Sea Observatory
- Closed tenderPublished 21 April 2017
Complex Lives Market Engagement Event PIN Notice
- Closed tenderPublished 28 March 2017
Appointment of Consultation Specialist
- Stale Pre-tenderPublished 22 March 2017
Research consultancy services
- Closed tenderPublished 22 March 2017
Newham Word Festival Producer
- Closed tenderPublished 22 March 2017
Parliament and public assembly buildings
- Closed tenderPublished 17 March 2017
Carnlough Industrial Hertiage Hub Project
- Closed tenderPublished 17 February 2017
BFI Film Academy Customer Relationship Management System
- Closed tenderPublished 23 January 2017
000746 South Asian Exhibition: Build & Design
- Closed tenderPublished 23 January 2017
000746 South Asian Exhibition: Build & Design
- Closed tenderPublished 16 December 2016
Museum-exhibition services
- Closed tenderPublished 4 October 2016
Cultural event organisation services
- Stale Pre-tenderPublished 23 August 2016
Artistic and literary creation and interpretation services
- Expired contract
HMS Belfast Conservation Condition Survey
- Closed tenderPublished 6 May 2016
Provision of Brompton Cemetery Interpretation Plan Delivery Consultancy Services
- Expired contract
The production of an Interpretation Strategy for the Foresters’ Forest Heritage Lottery Fund Landscape Partnership Programme in the Forest of Dean.
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, 2,160 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, 2 notices were added in the last seven days, and 2 of the matches here were published in that window.
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