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The article is incorrect to state that the Humberside County Council team that designed Phase 3 were available for construction. When North East Lincolnshire was formed in April 1996, Adrian Coy was appointed Head of Engineering Consultancy and charged with finalising design, assembling drawings and tender documents, procuring a contractor and supervising construction. A team of engineers were recruited into the Engineering Consultancy from the former County Council but none had worked to any significant extent on the design. The team had to familiarise themselves with the design in a relatively short time in order to meet procurement deadlines. Tenders were invited and received late in 1997 but none were within budget. Adrian Coy invited the lowest tenderer, Birse Ltd, to enter into negotiations to reduce their tender price. The largest saving negotiated (more than £1m) was a redesign of the brick walls that flank the road with a barrier erected to protect rather than using bricks to face a concrete barrier. Adrian Coy assumed the role of Engineer to the contract with Bob Gibson, formerly of Humberside County Council acting as Resident Engineer. Birse proposed a Partnering Agreement to work with the Council to continue to find savings, overcome issues that arose during construction and to complete the scheme on time. This novel approach was an early example of a more collaborative approach to construction and was successful