Procurement

Elizabeth Harbour's GBP 40m award is still an ECI record

Published 4 August 2026 Publisher IMWO Region Europe Confidence Confirmed
Planning CGI of the proposed Elizabeth Terminal frontage within the wider Elizabeth Harbour redevelopment

Ports of Jersey; wider terminal planning CGI, not evidence of marine construction progress

Ports of Jersey's GBP 40 million award gives Elizabeth Harbour a named marine team and a defined dredging, suspended-deck and reclamation scope. It does not close the construction gate. The procurement uses a two-stage NEC4 Option C route: Stage One develops detailed design, construction planning and pricing criteria, while Stage Two is the later delivery decision. Ports of Jersey's 2025 annual report places the work in final design and planning-condition discharge, with construction planned from autumn 2026.

A named alliance still sits before the physical start line

Contracts Finder establishes the award supplier, GBP 40 million structured value and stated dates. Find a Tender establishes the two-stage NEC4 Option C route. Ports of Jersey and VolkerStevin establish the Portside alliance, named partners and design-stage appointment. Government of Jersey planning records establish the permitted marine scope and construction assumptions. Ports of Jersey's annual report establishes final-design and planning-condition activity, not Stage Two release or physical mobilisation. The visual is a wider terminal planning CGI and is not progress evidence.

Named partners await package allocation

Two-stage awards are easy to overstate because a public value, contractor and programme appear together before the marine spread is mobilised. Here, VolkerFitzpatrick is the award supplier and the Portside alliance is public, while Stage Two authorization, an agreed target cost, notice to proceed, package-level subcontract map and field start remain unpublished. Treating GBP 40 million as a mobilised construction contract would prematurely place the dredging, piling, deck and reclamation work in delivery.

Evidence conclusion

Planning assumptions precede marine mobilisation

VolkerFitzpatrick, VolkerStevin and Geomarine form the disclosed Portside team. Arup and Boskalis are named specialist supply-chain partners without specific package allocations. The planning documents describe up to 80,000 cubic metres of offshore disposal, a medium backhoe dredger, two 1,000-cubic-metre split-hopper barges, a tug, 30 to 44 days of dredging, rock-socketed piles and prefabricated deck units. Those details are planning assumptions rather than an awarded plant schedule. Stage Two authorization must precede package appointments and dated mobilisation.

Outstanding evidence

  • Stage Two authorization, target cost and notice to proceed
  • Specific work packages for Arup, Boskalis and lower-tier marine firms
  • Dredger, hopper-barge, tug, piling and hydrographic-survey mobilisation
  • FEPA disposal route, La Collette reuse and accepted material receipts
  • Berth depth, post-dredge survey, deck handover and first LoLo operation

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