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Tender Details
- Country: United Kingdom
- Summary: Term Contract for Maintenance Dredging of the River Parrett: Winter 2025/26 to 2029/30
- GBT Ref No: 121594055
- Deadline: 01 Aug 2025
- Competition: ICB
- Financier: Self Financed
- Purchaser Ownership: Public
- Tender Value: Refer Document
- Notice Type: Tender
- Document Ref. No.: SDBS - WID - 25/30
- Purchaser's Detail :
- Description :
- The Parrett Internal Drainage Board (PIDB) (a member of the Somerset Drainage Boards Consortium (SDBC)) is acting on behalf of Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) to commission a five-year term contract for annual dredging works on tidal reaches of part of the Rivers Parrett and Tone in Somerset to retain the conveyance capability achieved as a result of pioneer dredging by the Environment Agency following extensive flooding in the catchment during winter 2013/14. An annual work schedule will be prepared for each year that funding is available on nominated reaches of the river(s) to be dredged. The 2025/26 schedule comprises a reach of approximately 4.8km of the River Parrett, downriver of Burrowbridge, Somerset, UK, as detailed in the example contract drawings included for tender quotation only (actual quantities will be assessed later this year for delivery winter 2025/26. Recent trend data indicates that this will involve dispersal of approximately 25,000m3 of silt. Works are to be conducted in accordance with a Public Sector Cooperation Agreement between SDBC and EA and the 'River Parrett Water Injection Maintenance Dredging - Environmentally Acceptable Protocol' that currently restricts working in the rivers to the period 01 December to 28 February, and to the use of water injection dredging methods within the main channel following a course along the river thalweg such that mobilised sediment deposits are dispersed on ebb tides i.e. not removed to land from the river and t...
- Documents :
Purchaser : SOMERSET DRAINAGE BOARDS CONSORTIUM
Bradbury House, 33-34 Market Street Highbridge TA9 3BW United Kingdom
Contact Person : Alexandra Crawford
Telephone : +447516461894
Email :alexandra@purcellsolutions.co.uk
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