BREAKING: Contract for £710m Overdale hospital signed with UK arm of French construction giant - Jersey Evening Post

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BREAKING: Contract for £710m Overdale hospital signed with UK arm of French construction giant

by Julien Morel 5 June 20265 June 2026

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Plans for the new Hospital at Overdale were approved by the Planning Committee earlier this month. (39315667)

A CONTRACT to build the £710m acute hospital at Overdale has been signed between the government and the main contractor.

The deal for the Island’s largest ever capital project – the first phase of a major investment in health infrastructure which will include a new outpatients’ hospital in Gloucester Street and Mental Health Village in St Saviour – was struck in the dying days of this political term between Jersey and the UK division of French construction giant Bouygues.

On Friday afternoon, a statement from the New Healthcare Facilities Programme team announced: “The procurement process for the Overdale Acute Hospital main works contract has concluded, with the preferred tenderer, Bouygues UK, appointed as the project’s main works delivery partner.

“The contract, signed between the Government of Jersey and Bouygues UK, is within the financial envelope agreed by the States Assembly for phase 1 of the New Healthcare Facilities Programme.”

It added: “We look forward to continuing our work with Bouygues UK to deliver this much-needed facility for Jersey. Ongoing assurance will continue to be completed over the coming weeks as required in the contract and further information will be issued in due course.”

That “envelope” referred to in the statement is £710m, which includes making “meaningful progress” on the other sites.

At a hustings last month, Health Minister Tom Binet said that he hoped the contract would be signed soon as he had been promising for four years that it would be concluded this political term.

The build time is expected to be four years, with some commissioning time to add, meaning that it should be completed by the end of 2030.

Electoral purdah means that Deputy Binet is unable to comment but, responding to the news, Mary Venturini – who is part of campaign group Friends of Our New Hospital – said: “We are delighted that the contract has been signed but we would like to see scrutiny of it – by the new government, Council of Ministers, and Assembly because the timing does seem to be a bit strange, just 48 hours before the election.

She added: “We have always said that we like this hospital: it is the right size in the right place, but we remain concerned that this is the right deal.

“We would like to know what guarantees are included, such as on exchange rates, because we all remember what happened when the incinerator was built [when the States failed to fix the currency exchange rate, which pushed up the cost of the French-built project].

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