Contractors pull bids for £4m Clyde Bridge project

South Lanarkshire Council has been forced back to the drawing board after both its first and second-ranked bidders for a road bridge replacement revealed they could not deliver to promised cost at the eleventh hour.
The unnamed winning bidder to replace Clyde Bridge on Pettinain Road, near Carstairs Junction, withdrew its tender blaming steel and cement cost inflation.
The 90m steel bridge replacement for a weakened concrete structure was originally tendered with a £3.8m cost estimate by t