Cable Forum - View Single Post - [Update] FirstGroup WCML franchise Award revoked

**Damien** · 03-10-2012, 08:13

Highlights how stupid the original decision was and vindicates Virgin's claims that the process was flawed and that FirstGroup's bid was high-risk and unlikely to be delivered. Any rational person would have looked at FirstGroup's offer of more trains, with more seats, at cheaper prices with more money being delivered and asked 'How is this possible?'.

Still thankfully the Government has seen sense and revoked the bid, would rather people own up to their mistakes and fix it than blindly press ahead to avoid being found out.

So what 'mistakes' did the bidding process have? Was it just that they didn't check if a bid's claims were actually achievable and simply gave it to the highest bidder?

03-10-2012, 08:13	#68
Damien Remoaner Cable Forum Team Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 32,739	re: [Update] FirstGroup WCML franchise Award revoked Highlights how stupid the original decision was and vindicates Virgin's claims that the process was flawed and that FirstGroup's bid was high-risk and unlikely to be delivered. Any rational person would have looked at FirstGroup's offer of more trains, with more seats, at cheaper prices with more money being delivered and asked 'How is this possible?'. Still thankfully the Government has seen sense and revoked the bid, would rather people own up to their mistakes and fix it than blindly press ahead to avoid being found out. So what 'mistakes' did the bidding process have? Was it just that they didn't check if a bid's claims were actually achievable and simply gave it to the highest bidder?