BAM Construction has been recommended as preferred bidder for the tender to build V&A Museum of Design Dundee. Read more

Pending approval at a meeting of the City Council’s Policy & Resources Committee on Monday evening, the company will work closely with the project team on the detailed building specification. Dundee City Council, which is leading the procurement on behalf of a consortium of public sector partners, intends this process to conclude with a fixed price contract.
Pending approval at a meeting of the City Council’s Policy & Resources Committee on Monday evening, the company will work closely with the project team on the detailed building specification. Dundee City Council, which is leading the procurement on behalf of a consortium of public sector partners, intends this process to conclude with a fixed price contract.
“This is an important step for all of us in building the home of V&A Dundee, a world-class visitor attraction and flagship of the waterfront regeneration. BAM Construction has an excellent track record in the delivery of prestigious cultural projects in Scotland.

“V&A Dundee is very much here already of course. We have a dedicated team who are busy making an impact across the country, through a variety of community engagement and learning initiatives as well as bringing world-class exhibitions and leading international designers to Scotland.  We are all delighted to see this next chapter in our story begin.”

Philip Long

Director of V&A Dundee

“The DDL Board welcomes this new milestone in the museum’s journey from drawing board to reality. In delivering a new design museum for Scotland, we have a clear commitment to, and utmost confidence in this once in a century opportunity to transform the city and the lives of its people for generations to come.

“Not only will V&A Dundee significantly enhance Scotland’s cultural landscape; it will be transformational for the region; and inspire the many thousands of visitors from around the world who stream through its doors.”

Lesley Knox

Chair of Design Dundee Ltd

“This is a project of international significance and it is great to hear that we have been recommended as the preferred main contractor. We keenly await the decision of Dundee City Council on Monday."

Douglas Keillor

Regional Director for BAM Construction in Scotland

Notes:

V&A Dundee will be an international centre for design, housed in a world-class building at the heart of Dundee’s revitalized waterfront.  It will host major exhibitions, celebrate design heritage, inspire and promote contemporary talent, and encourage future design innovation.

V&A Dundee will inform, educate and entertain but also explicitly, through its wider programmes inspire new creativity and innovation across Scotland.  

V&A Dundee will have access to thousands of Scottish-related objects from the V&A’s world-renowned collection for its Scottish Design Galleries, supplemented by objects loaned from collections of national significance across Scotland and beyond.  In parallel, the temporary exhibition galleries will host a variety of outstanding international touring exhibitions from the V&A each year.

V&A Dundee is being delivered by Design Dundee Ltd, a partnership between the Victoria and Albert Museum – the world’s greatest museum of art and design – and Dundee City Council, the University of Dundee, Abertay University and Scottish Enterprise.