JPT Bus Company

[Owl]

RE: JPT Bus Company

(27/04/2014 15:58)mbonwick Wrote:  It could just be the terms of the contract novation. TfGM have a legal duty to make sure they're getting value for money, so a retender after 3 months seems like a sensible course of action.

Interesting article in Route One, which suggests that Stagecoach have acquired 41 vehicles frpm JPT, as well as the routes and drivers, and that the deal is too small to require OFT approval, although Stagecoach do expect them to review the transaction, "as it is standard procedure". Not sure what that means - could OFT overturn it?

http://www.route-one.net/issues/536/index.html#/12/

Also what would Stagecoach want with the vehicles? Most of them are heaps of junk held together with duct tape. They must have better in reserve I would have thought.

One final thought, I wonder if the TC will be taking an interest in the management of JPT given the way that things happened.