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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Capital Dredge to Support Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) Carrier at Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Portsmouth

ConstructionCPV 45244000
Value£26.1m
Awarded25 Apr 2013
Published29 Jul 2015
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£26.1mtotal contract value
median £158k
this tender£0£28.2m

This is a large award for Construction — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 64,002 valued Construction tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This notice is to inform that the Contract for the provision of Capital Dredging to support the Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carrier at Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Portsmouth has been awarded to Boskalis Westminster Limited.

The QEC Capital dredging works are to allow the QEC Carrier to be capable of accessing and departing from the designated berths during the two high water windows per 24 hour period and to have the capability to remain at the designated berths at any state of the tide.

To achieve this, the approach channel, harbour entrance, inner harbour and berth pocket needs to be deepened, widened and straightened.

The Authority believes that the capital dredge of the approach channel into Portsmouth Harbour and the capital dredge of the inner harbour will involve the removal of approximately 3.2 million cubic metres of dredged material.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The QEC Capital dredging works are

The QEC Capital dredging works are to allow the QEC Carrier to be capable of accessing and departing from the designated berths during the two high water windows per 24 hour period and to have the capability to remain at the designated berths at any state of the tide.

02

To achieve this, the approach channel, harbour

To achieve this, the approach channel, harbour entrance, inner harbour and berth pocket needs to be deepened, widened and straightened.

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Source & provenance
OCID
38b0a282-ba63-45ff-8acf-a4445dfe5e23
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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