Contract award
North Lincolnshire lets seven highways contracts under its own framework
By Staff Writer | 03-09-2026
North Lincolnshire Council published seven highways award notices on 2 September 2026, every one of them let under its own construction and highways framework by restricted procedure. The contracts were concluded between 30 July and 1 September 2026 and, added together, they come to 1,541,727.61 pounds excluding value added tax across three contractors.
The largest is not a resurfacing scheme. It is the provision of three reactive pothole repair gangs, described on the notice as first time find and fix, awarded to EC Surfacing at 557,280 pounds and concluded on 1 September 2026. That single contract is more than a third of the total and it buys labour and plant on standby rather than a defined length of road.
Seven notices, one framework, three contractors, and a batch published on a single afternoon for contracts concluded over five weeks.
The seven contracts
The footway resurfacing programme for 2026 to 2027 went to EC Surfacing at 119,500.49 pounds, concluded on 30 July 2026. Resurfacing at the Scunthorpe recycling centre went to the same contractor at 18,706.61 pounds, concluded on 13 August 2026. Carriageway resurfacing at several sites in Hibaldstow went to Tarmac Trading Limited at 175,875.77 pounds, concluded on 17 August 2026.
Structural carriageway reconstruction and resurfacing at Highfield Avenue and Cliff Gardens went to PBS Construction at 315,525.61 pounds, concluded on 18 August 2026. The notice describes reconstruction to a depth of 200 millimetres and resurfacing to 40 millimetres, with reprofiling, ironwork adjustments, kerbing renewal, access alterations and footway adjustments. Carriageway resurfacing at several sites in Bottesford, including minor ironwork adjustments, went to Tarmac Trading at 327,224.70 pounds, concluded on 25 August 2026. Resurfacing at Sandtoft Road, Epworth Road, went to EC Surfacing at 27,614.43 pounds, concluded on 27 August 2026. The pothole gangs contract completes the seven.
The Highfield Avenue and Cliff Gardens award appears twice on the same afternoon, on two separate notices carrying the same contractor, the same value and the same conclusion date. It is counted once here.
Who holds the work
EC Surfacing, of Brigg, with company number 07080098 and recorded as a small or medium sized enterprise, holds four of the seven and 723,101.53 pounds of the total. Tarmac Trading, of Birmingham, with company number 00453791 and recorded as not being a small or medium sized enterprise, holds two and 503,100.47 pounds. PBS Construction, of Hull, with company number 02266573 and recorded as a small or medium sized enterprise, holds one and 315,525.61 pounds.
The split is worth noting for anyone bidding into a local authority framework. The local operator takes the volume and the small values, including the standby gangs; the national supplier takes the two straightforward carriageway packages; and the largest single construction package, the one carrying reconstruction depth, kerbing and access alterations, goes to a third firm again. On a framework that runs by call off, that pattern reflects how the council allocates rather than how any one firm priced, and the allocation rule is not published on the notices.
What the notices show and what they do not
Every one of the seven is recorded as procured through the council's construction and highways framework, and every one used the restricted procedure. None of them publishes the number of tenders received, so whether each call off was competed among framework members or directly awarded cannot be read off the record. None publishes award criteria or weightings. None publishes a programme, so the start and finish dates of any of the schemes are not on the notices, and the conclusion dates given are contract dates rather than site dates.
The classifications differ across the seven: construction work, road maintenance works, various surface works and surface work for roads. That variation matters only to a supplier searching the notices by classification, but it is the reason a set of contracts let by one buyer under one framework on one afternoon does not appear as a single programme to anyone scanning the record.