Msbl&P Limited (SC299074): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2014-04-24
- Administrators
- Kenneth Robert Craig, Kenneth Wilson Pattullo
- Administrators' firm
- Begbies Traynor
- Formerly
- Maclean and Speirs Blasting Limited
- Incorporated
- 2006-03-17
- Location
- Glasgow
- Industry
- 43341 Painting
Why it went into administration
- Property / lease costs
From the administrators' statement
MSBL & P Ltd (“MS8LP”) was incorporated on 17" March 2006 providing industrial cleaning, blasting and painting services to both the public and private sector.
The company entered into a sub contract arrangement with BAM Nuttal (‘BAM’) in November 2011 to carry out protective coating work to the Whitecart Viaduct at Glasgow Airport. Feasibility trials were carried out by the company in March 2012 to identify the surfaces which needed to be re-blasted. With the discovery of additional weld failure and the level of deterioration of previous blasting work, BAM advised that the structure would need to be re-blasted prior to being painted. Method statements were drafted by MSBLP and revised in line with the additional work which needed to be carried out. The final method statement was accepted and signed off by BAM in March 2012 with work starting in April 2012.
MSBLP billed BAM for the additional blasting work on a monthly basis but BAM withheld payment while further information from MSBLP was sought. The dispute continued through 2012 with the company taking legal advice in November 2012 to ascertain the options available to pursue the outstanding balance which MSBLP believed to be in the region of £1.2m.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2014-06-23) · Companies House register