The Somerset Drainage Boards Consortium (SDBC) has gone out to tender with a five year term contract for maintenance dredging of the River Parrett worth an estimated £3.48 million.
The Parrett Internal Drainage Board (PIDB) (a member of the 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 reachof approximately 4.8km of the River Parrett, downriver of Burrowbridge, Somerset, UK. 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.
The 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 1 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
targeted mechanical removal of excess material from the upper banks using an excavator.
The SDBC is asking interested suppliers to notify them of the intention to tender in advance of any submission by 26 June 2025 - contact email addresses are as follows:
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Current estimated start and end contract dates are 1 December 2025 to 31 March 2030. Deadline to submit enquiries about the tender is 11 July 2025, 11:59pm and tender submission deadline is 18 July 2025, 12:00pm.
Click here to access the tender notice documentation.
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