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Title: October 2016 Tenders
Post by: Dom on September 07, 2016, 05:52:00 AM
Apart from Hansons, have any other companies announced what they've won and lost? If not when could we expect it to come out?
Title: Re: October 2016 Tenders
Post by: ARBB on September 07, 2016, 11:52:25 AM
Quote from: Dom on September 07, 2016, 05:52:00 AM
Apart from Hansons, have any other companies announced what they've won and lost? If not when could we expect it to come out?

The day after the changes😂
Title: Re: October 2016 Tenders
Post by: Dom on September 07, 2016, 12:48:54 PM
Quote from: pndriver on September 07, 2016, 11:52:25 AM
The day after the changes😂

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest
Title: Re: October 2016 Tenders
Post by: Kevin on September 07, 2016, 01:02:38 PM
Quote from: Dom on September 07, 2016, 05:52:00 AM
Apart from Hansons, have any other companies announced what they've won and lost? If not when could we expect it to come out?

Diamond have.
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Title: Re: October 2016 Tenders
Post by: Dom on September 07, 2016, 03:42:26 PM
Quote from: Kevin on September 07, 2016, 01:02:38 PM
Diamond have.
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Ahhhhh interesting, thanks for that Kevin. Kind of glad they're coming off evening and late 81's. I wonder if NX will take it over since they operate it in the day anyway.
Title: Re: October 2016 Tenders
Post by: bususer12 on September 08, 2016, 10:58:25 AM
Rumours there are a lot of evening & sunday tenders not being retendered, I've heard 226 mentioned, 81 doesnt seem much busier so might not be an operator at all?
Title: Re: October 2016 Tenders
Post by: Dom on September 08, 2016, 11:00:50 AM
Quote from: bususer12 on September 08, 2016, 10:58:25 AM
Rumours there are a lot of evening & sunday tenders not being retendered, I've heard 226 mentioned, 81 doesnt seem much busier so might not be an operator at all?

The 81 does get fairly decent loadings on Sundays and okay loadings on evenings. If it didn't have an operator they'd be missing a trick.
Title: Re: October 2016 Tenders
Post by: Central Buses on September 08, 2016, 11:07:13 AM
Quote from: bususer12 on September 08, 2016, 10:58:25 AM
Rumours there are a lot of evening & sunday tenders not being retendered, I've heard 226 mentioned, 81 doesnt seem much busier so might not be an operator at all?

Diamond look to have retained the 226, and NXWM look to have obtained the 81.
Title: Re: October 2016 Tenders
Post by: Dom on September 08, 2016, 02:45:10 PM
Quote from: Central Buses on September 08, 2016, 11:07:13 AM
NXWM look to have obtained the 81.

YES!!!!!!
Title: Re: October 2016 Tenders
Post by: the trainbasher on September 08, 2016, 08:22:39 PM
Quote from: Central Buses on September 08, 2016, 11:07:13 AM
Diamond look to have retained the 226, and NXWM look to have obtained the 81.

You mean regained the 226. From Apr 2008 - Oct 2014 Diamond held the contract, with a introduction c2012 of a day service. Oct 2014 Diamond lost it to igo then, AFAIK, the 226 has gone back to diamond...unless the registration that they've placed is to adjust some of the daytime timings.

Remember there is 2 contracts for the 226, the Hansons early morning one and the igo nights and Sunday one
Title: Re: October 2016 Tenders
Post by: Stuharris 6360 on September 08, 2016, 08:27:02 PM
Quote from: the trainbasher on September 08, 2016, 08:22:39 PM
You mean regained the 226. From Apr 2008 - Oct 2014 Diamond held the contract, with a introduction c2012 of a day service. Oct 2014 Diamond lost it to igo then, AFAIK, the 226 has gone back to diamond...unless the registration that they've placed is to adjust some of the daytime timings.

Remember there is 2 contracts for the 226, the Hansons early morning one and the igo nights and Sunday one

Are Diamond altering their daytime times then as it wasn't a new registration?
Title: Re: October 2016 Tenders
Post by: the trainbasher on September 08, 2016, 08:28:13 PM
Quote from: Stuharris 6360 on September 08, 2016, 08:27:02 PM
Are Diamond altering their daytime times then as it wasn't a new registration?

I don't know. Remember, as I said, the 226 is 2 different tenders as well as the commercial service. It could be that they have won one of the two tenders, that being why they registered a alteration