Contract award

North East Lincolnshire signs the Burgess Street car park contract

By Staff Writer  |  31-08-2026

North East Lincolnshire Borough Council has signed a contract for the Burgess Street car park with BS Construction (North East) Ltd at 440,970.64 pounds. The award notice, identifier 082311-2026, was published on the United Kingdom tender service at 15:51 on 28 August 2026, nine days after the contract was signed on 19 August 2026. The council's own reference for the procurement is HD010-25.

The scope is described in one sentence. The works included full construction of the Burgess Street car park, which include the pavement, drainage, kerbing and road signing and lining. The requirement is classified under general construction work.

Five bids for a job at this value is a full field. On a scheme of four hundred thousand pounds and a short list of trades, that is the competition a buyer wants and does not always get.

The competition

The notice records five bids against the single lot. It publishes no shortlist, no scores and no runner up. The successful contractor is registered at Hull and is recorded on the notice as a small or medium sized enterprise.

The council names its own legal services department as the review body for the procurement, which is the ordinary arrangement for a below threshold award run in house.

The four trades in the scope

Pavement, drainage, kerbing, and signing and lining. That list is short but it is not simple, and the order in which those four operations are sequenced is what decides whether a car park scheme runs to time.

Drainage goes in before the pavement, and the levels for the finished surface are set by it. Kerbing defines the edges that the surfacing is laid against, so it has to be accurate and it has to be complete in each bay before the surfacing gang can work. Signing and lining is the last operation and it needs a cured surface and dry weather, which puts it at the mercy of whatever the programme has already absorbed.

The commonest source of dispute on a job shaped like this is not any one of those four activities. It is the ground under them. A car park is a large area of shallow excavation, and unforeseen ground conditions, existing services and unsuitable formation material are the risks that turn a straightforward surfacing job into a variation. Whether that risk sits with the buyer or the contractor is a matter for the contract, and the notice does not name one.

The tense on the record

The description on the notice is written in the past tense. It says the works included full construction of the car park. The contract was signed on 19 August and the notice was published on 28 August, so the notice follows the signature rather than preceding the work.

The record does not state whether the works are complete, in progress or yet to start, and it publishes no contract period. Nothing here should be read as saying the car park is finished. What the record establishes is the price, the contractor, the date of signature and the scope.

The notice gives no location for the car park beyond its street name, no capacity, no start or completion date, and no framework reference. It publishes no gross figure alongside the 440,970.64 pounds, so no value added tax inclusive sum is stated here. The buyer is recorded at Grimsby. The award and the contract are both recorded as active.