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**Chris** · 03-10-2012, 08:37

Seeing as they have pulled the plug on it before it got aired in court, we may never know ...

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I think we may actually have a debt of gratitude to First here. They submitted a bid that everyone except First seemed to believe was inachievable, yet it went through the DfT's assessment process and came out the winner. Had First's bid been only mildly crazy, rather than suicidal (as it was described by some "industry watchers" at the time), we may never have seen a proper review of what is now obviously a deeply flawed process.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,090	re: [Update] FirstGroup WCML franchise Award revoked Seeing as they have pulled the plug on it before it got aired in court, we may never know ... ---------- Post added at 08:37 ---------- Previous post was at 08:26 ---------- I think we may actually have a debt of gratitude to First here. They submitted a bid that everyone except First seemed to believe was inachievable, yet it went through the DfT's assessment process and came out the winner. Had First's bid been only mildly crazy, rather than suicidal (as it was described by some "industry watchers" at the time), we may never have seen a proper review of what is now obviously a deeply flawed process.