Project record

Bristol Floating Harbour 2026 maintenance dredging

Participation
Awarded
Participation checked

Bullo holds the signed GBP 392,500 excluding-VAT contract; July and August navigation windows are historical, with the post-term instruction and accepted output unconfirmed

Participation source

Bristol City Council signed Bullo Limited on 24 March 2026 for GBP 392,500 excluding VAT, GBP 471,000 including VAT, to remove silt within and adjacent to the Floating Harbour. The original period was 30 March to 26 June. Notices 35/26 and 36/26, consulted in August, scheduled western Baltic Wharf windows on 27-31 July and 10-17 August with a floating pipeline and Bullo call sign. They are absent from the current October listing and remain historical schedule references. The contractual basis for later work, actual production, accepted quantity and depth, payment and handover remain unconfirmed.

Maintenance dredging at Bristol Floating Harbour's Baltic Wharf, with a compact dredger barge, floating dredge pipeline and restricted navigation

IMWO artist's impression of the published Bristol Floating Harbour 2026 maintenance dredging scope

Location

United Kingdom / Europe

Segment

Maintenance dredging, floating-harbour navigation and marina access

Phase

Award / Confirmed

Last checked

14 October 2026

Coverage

Related sectors

Maintenance dredging, floating-harbour navigation and marina access is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.

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Project anatomy

Contract scope and delivery roles

Client / authority
Bristol City Council, acting through Bristol Harbour Authority
Procurement references
DN798895; ocds-h6vhtk-067353; 027070-2026
Delivery parties
Bullo Limited - supplier named on Harbour Maintenance Dredging contract DN798895, Survey, dredger, pipeline, support-vessel, sediment-handling and disposal lower tiers - not separately identified in the reviewed public record
Contract route
Notice 027070-2026 records a below-threshold limited-competition works contract, tender DN798895, signed 24 March 2026. Bullo Limited is the active supplier at GBP 392,500 excluding VAT and GBP 471,000 including VAT. The contract lists six agreed metrics covering supplier performance, quality and progress, cost and value for money, user experience, risk management, and social value and sustainability.
Execution window
The signed administrative period runs from 30 March to 26 June 2026. Notices 35/26 and 36/26, consulted in August, scheduled western Baltic Wharf work on 27-31 July and 10-17 August, subject to weather and operating requirements. The October navigation listing omits both notices. Historical windows retain their original dates; a later instruction, modification, actual work dates, accepted output and closeout remain unconfirmed. Recovery of the original full text remains outstanding.
Works package
The award description is removal of silt built up within and adjacent to Bristol Floating Harbour by an appropriate method. The historical July and August harbour notices add only a western Baltic Wharf location, a dredger, floating pipeline and short operating windows. No public specification located discloses design depth, measured quantity, dredging method across each reach, sediment classification, pipeline discharge point, licensed disposal route or accepted output.
Marine interfaces
Notice 36/26 places a floating dredge pipeline beside the quay wall outside The Cottage Pub and warns that it may enclose the area. It imposes temporary navigation restrictions near Baltic Wharf and Underfall Yard, possible slipway disruption, a prohibition on passing between the dredger and marker pole, safe-speed and lookout duties, and VHF channel 73 contact using call sign Bullo. The work shares a live floating harbour with marina, leisure and water-sports traffic.
Commercial evidence boundary
GBP 392,500 is the signed excluding-VAT contract amount, not a final account or guaranteed physical production value. The notice chain publicly exposes six performance categories but no scored results, certified payments, variation value or accepted final quantity. Work scheduled after 26 June should be treated as a contract-administration question until Bristol publishes the relevant instrument.

Project timeline

Material developments

Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.

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October notice listing omits historical August dredging windows

The current listing was checked on 14 October and no longer contains 35/26 or 36/26. This records source availability, not the date work stopped, a contract extension or completed dredging.

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August harbour notice schedules another Baltic Wharf window

Notice 36/26 schedules about seven days at western Baltic Wharf through 17 August, identifies the floating pipeline and Bullo call sign, but does not publish the contractual basis or prove that the scheduled move has occurred.

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Earlier Baltic Wharf operating window followed the original contract end

Notice 35/26 scheduled a five-day western Baltic Wharf period after the 26 June contract end. It remains a navigation notice rather than a contract variation or completion record.

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Bristol signed the Bullo dredging contract

Find a Tender fixes Bullo Limited, GBP 392,500 excluding VAT, limited competition and an original 30 March-26 June term.

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Evidence gap

What remains unverified

Outstanding evidence

  • Executed contract documents, specification and priced activity schedule
  • Variation, extension, call-off or follow-on instruction covering work after 26 June
  • Confirmation that the 10-17 August Baltic Wharf window commenced and finished
  • Bathymetric surveys before and after dredging, target bed levels and accepted quantities
  • Sediment classification, removal method and final disposal or relocation route
  • Named dredger, pipeline, tug, survey and environmental plant assigned to Bristol
  • Project-specific subcontractors and lower-tier workshare
  • Supplier-performance metrics, certified payment, final account and owner acceptance

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Reporting status

Project phase
Award
Evidence confidence
Confirmed
Last checked
14 October 2026
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