Vivid Housing has awarded a £69m contract to PMC Construction and Development Services for the first phase of a residential scheme at Victory Quay in Tipner, Portsmouth.
The 183-home phase one will be built across four apartment blocks and three houseblocks. It includes hard and soft landscaping alongside onsite and offsite infrastructure works.
Work is due to begin on 8 September 2025 and complete by 31 March 2028.
The JCT contract was directly awarded under section 41 of the Procurement Act 2023 due to what the client described as an “absence of competition for technical reasons”.
The site borders protected environmental areas, including the Portsmouth Harbour Site of Special Scientific Interest and Ramsar-designated Tipner Lake, requiring licences that limit construction to certain months.
These licences are held in PMC’s name.
Portsmouth-based PMC had previously carried out enabling works under a pre-construction services agreement signed in February 2025, including a 500-metre sea wall, remediation of contaminated land, and engagement with the Environment Agency, Natural England and the Marine Management Organisation.
That preparatory work gave PMC what VIVID described as “specific know-how essential to the effective delivery” of the main build.
VIVID intends to run a separate procurement process for future phases, expected to begin in May 2026.
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Ben Vogel