Location
Barbados / Americas
Project record
Bridgetown Port Sugar Berth seawall and revetment repair
World Bank contract record 1881500 names C. O. Williams Construction Limited for stabilising the seawall and pavement and repairing the revetment at Bridgetown Port's Sugar Berth. The record reports USD 3,338,256.29, contract reference BB-BPI-528041-CW-DIR and a 15 September 2025 signing date. A procurement plan revised three months later still showed a USD 4 million estimate, Pending Implementation status, a planned 20 January 2026 signature and 19 July 2026 completion. The same contract record gives a 21 April 2026 no-objection date. That public sequence remains unreconciled, and physical start, installed work, completion and acceptance remain unconfirmed.
Segment
Port infrastructure
Status
World Bank contract record 1881500 names C. O. Williams Construction Limited at USD 3.338 million, but the public procurement chronology does not reconcile and no dated mobilisation, progress or completion record has been located / Confirmed
Last checked
6 August 2026
Coverage
Related sectors
Port infrastructure is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.
Subject index
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Project anatomy
Contract scope and delivery roles
- Client / authority
- Barbados Port Inc. under the World Bank-supported Barbados Beryl Emergency Response and Recovery Project
- Delivery parties
- C. O. Williams Construction Limited - named works contractor for BB-BPI-528041-CW-DIR, Sugar Berth construction-observation consultant under BB-BPI-528451-CS-CDS - procurement plan identifies the package but no selected consultant is confirmed in the cited sources, Survey, diving, marine plant, rock, pavement, testing and other lower-tier parties - not identified in the cited sources
- Contract route
- Direct Selection in the national market, classified as Works and Post review. World Bank contract record 1881500 reports USD 3,338,256.29, C. O. Williams Construction Limited, contract reference BB-BPI-528041-CW-DIR and a 15 September 2025 signature. The December 2025 procurement plan still carried a USD 4 million estimate and Pending Implementation status.
- Execution window
- The procurement plan revised 15 December 2025 showed a planned 20 January 2026 contract signature and 19 July 2026 completion. Those planned dates conflict with the contract API's earlier signature date, and the API's 21 April 2026 no-objection date follows both. No dated owner, engineer or lender record has been located that confirms site possession, mobilisation, actual completion or acceptance.
- Works package
- Stabilise the seawall and pavement and repair the revetment in the Sugar Berth area of Bridgetown Port. The cited public contract record does not disclose repair length, armour or fill quantities, pavement area, design sections, temporary works, marine plant, testing requirements or accepted as-built quantities.
- Marine interfaces
- Barbados Port identifies Sugar Berth as a 307 metre berth with 9.75 metre published depth serving bulk sugar, molasses tankers and cruise vessels. Those berth particulars are operating context, not repair geometry. Delivery therefore potentially interfaces with live berthing, cargo and passenger operations, edge protection, seawall stability, pavement loading, revetment access, tide and marine safety, but the current sources do not publish the contractor's method or operating restrictions.
- Commercial evidence boundary
- The sugar-berth contract is reported by the World Bank at USD 3,338,256.29, compared with the earlier USD 4 million procurement estimate. The two amounts are separate baselines; neither their sum nor their difference establishes savings or an as-built account. Payment, variation, final quantities, price adjustment, final account and any lower-tier allocation remain undisclosed.
Contract and delivery chain
Named roles and open packages
Named appointments are shown against the workstream they cover. Unallocated packages remain open until a project source identifies the responsible party.
Works contract
BB-BPI-528041-CW-DIR Sugar Berth seawall, pavement and revetment repair
- Named party
- C. O. Williams Construction Limited
- Status
- Confirmed
- Source position
- World Bank contract record 1881500 reports the contractor, USD 3,338,256.29, Direct Selection, Post review and a 15 September 2025 signing date. Source
Procurement chronology
Works estimate and planned programme
- Named party
- Barbados Port Inc.
- Status
- Reported
- Source position
- The plan revised 15 December 2025 still showed Pending Implementation, a USD 4 million estimate, planned signature on 20 January 2026 and planned completion on 19 July 2026, while the contract API reports an earlier signature and later no-objection date. Source
Construction observation
BB-BPI-528451-CS-CDS
- Named party
- Unconfirmed consultant
- Status
- Not evidenced
- Source position
- The procurement plan carried a USD 400,000 estimate and planned dates, but did not identify a selected consultant or actual appointment. Source
Operating asset
Sugar Berth context
- Named party
- Barbados Port Inc.
- Status
- Confirmed
- Source position
- The port publishes a 307 metre berth, 9.75 metre depth and use by bulk sugar, molasses tankers and cruise vessels; those particulars do not establish repair dimensions or progress. Source
Physical delivery
Mobilisation, repair, testing and acceptance
- Named party
- Barbados Port Inc., C. O. Williams and the unconfirmed observer
- Status
- Not evidenced
- Source position
- No cited official source confirms site possession, marine works, installed quantities, completion survey, berth release or owner acceptance.
Project timeline
Material developments
Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.
Open this project in the Change LogWorld Bank contract record carries a later no-objection date
The API's no-objection field postdates both its recorded September 2025 signature and the procurement plan's January 2026 planned signature, leaving the public sequence unresolved.
SourceProcurement plan still showed the works as pending
The revised plan carried a USD 4 million estimate, planned January 2026 signature and July 2026 completion; these are planning fields, not proof of execution.
SourceWorld Bank contract record dates the C. O. Williams signature
The record establishes the named contractor and USD 3,338,256.29 amount but does not establish site mobilisation or explain the later procurement-plan status.
SourceEvidence gap
What remains unverified
Outstanding evidence
- Reconciled signing, no-objection and procurement-plan chronology
- Dated site possession, notice to proceed and mobilisation
- Repair limits, seawall and revetment sections and pavement quantities
- Marine plant, survey, diving, rock and pavement supply chain
- Construction-observation consultant under BB-BPI-528451-CS-CDS
- Berth closures, cargo and cruise operating restrictions
- As-built survey, testing, berth release and owner acceptance
- Payments, variations, final account and lower-tier contractors
Sources and related records
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Source collections
Project sources 4
- World Bank contract 1881500 for BB-BPI-528041-CW-DIR World Bank Projects and Operations API, Contract record reviewed 6 August 2026
- P507190 Barbados Port Inc. procurement plan World Bank, Revised 15 December 2025
- Barbados Beryl Emergency Response and Recovery Project P507190 World Bank Projects and Operations API, Current project record reviewed 6 August 2026
- Bridgetown Port berthing capacity Barbados Port Inc., Current page reviewed 6 August 2026