Tender Discussion Thread
Tender Discussion Thread
https://twitter.com/darlingtonbc/status/...1254187008
DBC holding sessions for tenders
The contract for service 11 (South Shields - South Tyneside Hospital - Low Simonside - Hill Park - Jarrow), currently operated by Stagecoach North East, has been retained by Stagecoach. The new contract commences from 26/07/15 for three years. The contract was awarded on a non-conforming basis, representing the best value for money in terms of service specification and tender conditions.
(01 Jul 2015, 1:30 pm)Michael Any contract tenders coming up for grabs?
(01 Jul 2015, 1:30 pm)Michael Any contract tenders coming up for grabs?
(01 Jul 2015, 2:21 pm)Dan Yes - a large number of scholars and workers services from September 2015.
I believe Kingsley's have lost service 960 (Waterview Park - South Shields) and Stanley Travel have lost service 968 (Waterview Park - Easington Lane).
Not a great deal else worth noting, to be honest.
The VOSA registrations to confirm the above, and further workers services, should appear shortly.
(01 Jul 2015, 2:21 pm)Dan Yes - a large number of scholars and workers services from September 2015.
I believe Kingsley's have lost service 960 (Waterview Park - South Shields) and Stanley Travel have lost service 968 (Waterview Park - Easington Lane).
Not a great deal else worth noting, to be honest.
The VOSA registrations to confirm the above, and further workers services, should appear shortly.
(01 Jul 2015, 2:25 pm)Michael Cheers Dan.
Wonder if GNE will continue to run all of the scholars they do atm
(01 Jul 2015, 2:25 pm)Michael Cheers Dan.
Wonder if GNE will continue to run all of the scholars they do atm
The Nexus Miscellaneous Workings have all now been awarded to bus operators in the region. VOSA registrations for these workings have already started to appear, and a number of you have copied these registrations into the respective bus operator threads.
I have outlined below the different contract specifications, and how many vehicles are required of the successful tenderer. It's important to point out that each individual vehicle may work a number of scholars and workers services. These contracts all commence from September, and are of a three-year duration (ending September 2018).
Low Floor Vehicle - Minimum Capacity of 84 - Euro 4
(15 Jul 2015, 6:11 pm)Dan The Nexus Miscellaneous Workings have all now been awarded to bus operators in the region. VOSA registrations for these workings have already started to appear, and a number of you have copied these registrations into the respective bus operator threads.
I have outlined below the different contract specifications, and how many vehicles are required of the successful tenderer. It's important to point out that each individual vehicle may work a number of scholars and workers services. These contracts all commence from September, and are of a three-year duration (ending September 2018).
Low Floor Vehicle - Minimum Capacity of 84 - Euro 4
- Stanley Travel - 2 Vehicles
- Gateshead Central Taxis - 4 Vehicles
- Arriva North East - 2 Vehicles
- Jim Hughes Coaches - 1 Vehicle
- Nightingale Coaches - 6 Vehicles
- Phoenix Coaches - 3 Vehicles
- Kingsleys Coaches - 9 Vehicles
Low Floor Vehicle - Minimum Capacity of 60 - Euro 4
- Gateshead Central Taxis - 1 Vehicle
- Go North East - 2 Vehicles
Low Floor Vehicle - Minimum Capacity of 44 - Euro 4
- Go North East - 3 Vehicles
(15 Jul 2015, 6:11 pm)Dan The Nexus Miscellaneous Workings have all now been awarded to bus operators in the region. VOSA registrations for these workings have already started to appear, and a number of you have copied these registrations into the respective bus operator threads.
I have outlined below the different contract specifications, and how many vehicles are required of the successful tenderer. It's important to point out that each individual vehicle may work a number of scholars and workers services. These contracts all commence from September, and are of a three-year duration (ending September 2018).
Low Floor Vehicle - Minimum Capacity of 84 - Euro 4
- Stanley Travel - 2 Vehicles
- Gateshead Central Taxis - 4 Vehicles
- Arriva North East - 2 Vehicles
- Jim Hughes Coaches - 1 Vehicle
- Nightingale Coaches - 6 Vehicles
- Phoenix Coaches - 3 Vehicles
- Kingsleys Coaches - 9 Vehicles
Low Floor Vehicle - Minimum Capacity of 60 - Euro 4
- Gateshead Central Taxis - 1 Vehicle
- Go North East - 2 Vehicles
Low Floor Vehicle - Minimum Capacity of 44 - Euro 4
- Go North East - 3 Vehicles
(15 Jul 2015, 6:22 pm)Michael GNE have lost quite a bit, seems the Olympian will be gone by the start of September?
(15 Jul 2015, 6:22 pm)Michael GNE have lost quite a bit, seems the Olympian will be gone by the start of September?
(15 Jul 2015, 6:22 pm)Michael GNE have lost quite a bit, seems the Olympian will be gone by the start of September?
(15 Jul 2015, 6:26 pm)Michael , infact it could be the next few weeks, schools finish this week.
(15 Jul 2015, 6:22 pm)Michael GNE have lost quite a bit, seems the Olympian will be gone by the start of September?
(15 Jul 2015, 6:26 pm)Michael , infact it could be the next few weeks, schools finish this week.
Hi there I am new here and I live in Humshaugh, Northumberland and I am trying to disentangle the mess of bus services in the area. My partner and I both have a disability and are reliant on bus services. I have never seen such a shocking level of unprofessional attitude and policies towards transport provision in my life. Many years ago I had a major piece of research published on bus deregulation and the person who assisted was a certain Counsellor David Begg in Edinburgh and this chap went on to be Tony Blairs personal advisor on bus transport. I do have some insight into the whole area of bus transport provision.
There are villages such as Wark that don’t have any bus stops or timetables. My local bus stop has bus services missing from the timetable. The county council fund all of the services and do absolutely nothing to promote them. At present they are cutting back massively on tendered services. The 682 Hexham to Colwell bus is being withdrawn. The operator Go Northeast who run the service under contract to the county council haven’t given the transport commissioner the required 56 days minimum notice for a service change or withdrawal. The list is endless of unprofessional, bordering on illegal activities. For some reason the Council Haven’t applied for any payment from the BSOG for the period 2014-2015, when in previous years they have received quite substantial sums of money. I would content that the council are deliberately attempting to run down bus services by proxy. A good example is the bus gerrymandering of the 880 Kielder to Hexham bus.This has been cut back to just a Kielder to Bellingham service. It now makes it impossible to have a day at the National Park of travelling from South of Bellingham. The buses don’t connect or miss the last bus at Bellingham. The county council are legally responsible for timetables and bus stops. There isn’t any evidence at Kielder of any bus service existing at Kielder.
This morning I have been attempting to find out about a Tuesday only service that runs between Kielder and hexham. I am very good on the internet and it has been a real problem finding anything out about this service. It is not listed on my local bus stop. Eventually after much digging and wildcarding I found a service 694 run by Adapt. This service does not appear on their website or on any mobile transport mobile/ IOS app. I really have no idea if this bus will come or bring me back.
If an experienced internet user as myself can’t find this service how can a casual traveller. I have a high knowledge of bus service provision and experience of working within the research community and this terrible web of shocking behaviour is the worst I have ever seen. The county council here in Northumberland seem to be at the root of the problem. I have managed to have a letter published in the Hexham Courant but this was heavily edited.
I am at a loss to know what to do really. There is massive local indifference here to public transport and anyone without a car is treated by many like a second class citizen. The area is affluent and car obsessed and many may have given up trying to travel by bus as they simply don’t know when and if there are services. I suspect that was the aim all along.
So I still don’t know if my bus will be running today. I too feel like just giving up. But if I do I could be left without a bus and will have to move house.
(29 Sep 2015, 5:15 am)mark62 The county council fund all of the services and do absolutely nothing to promote them. At present they are cutting back massively on tendered services. The 682 Hexham to Colwell bus is being withdrawn. The operator Go Northeast who run the service under contract to the county council haven’t given the transport commissioner the required 56 days minimum notice for a service change or withdrawal. The list is endless of unprofessional, bordering on illegal activities.
(29 Sep 2015, 5:15 am)mark62 The county council fund all of the services and do absolutely nothing to promote them. At present they are cutting back massively on tendered services. The 682 Hexham to Colwell bus is being withdrawn. The operator Go Northeast who run the service under contract to the county council haven’t given the transport commissioner the required 56 days minimum notice for a service change or withdrawal. The list is endless of unprofessional, bordering on illegal activities.
On another note - I noticed an invitation to tender for three Durham Park & Ride Lumiere services went out about a week ago.
I believe it was a fairly short-notice contract: Durham County Council gave operators about a week to express interest.
In the past (notably when Arriva has operated the normal Park & Ride services), Arriva has operated the additional buses on services PR1 and PR2, while Go North East has operated special service PR5.
(29 Sep 2015, 5:44 am)Dan On another note - I noticed an invitation to tender for three Durham Park & Ride Lumiere services went out about a week ago.
I believe it was a fairly short-notice contract: Durham County Council gave operators about a week to express interest.
In the past (notably when Arriva has operated the normal Park & Ride services), Arriva has operated the additional buses on services PR1 and PR2, while Go North East has operated special service PR5.
(29 Sep 2015, 5:44 am)Dan On another note - I noticed an invitation to tender for three Durham Park & Ride Lumiere services went out about a week ago.
I believe it was a fairly short-notice contract: Durham County Council gave operators about a week to express interest.
In the past (notably when Arriva has operated the normal Park & Ride services), Arriva has operated the additional buses on services PR1 and PR2, while Go North East has operated special service PR5.
I guess the fact that SB don't have the bigger buses is the reason that a tender has been put out.
I've never actually made it to a Lumiere. I'd injured myself struggling home from school with a boy who didn't want to walk where I needed to walk last time and did not fancy an evening out in the cold with him and the time before, the same boy was poorly and, even if he wasn't, we didn't fancy the crowds with his SN buggy.
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I actually had a look at the tender for this when it came out. If I remember right there was a PR2 from Sniperley, PR4 from New College and PR5 from Merryoaks which suggests Scarlet Band will be operating PR1 only flat out with the extra resources normally used on PR2. I can't remember the PVRs requested but I think it was something like 4, 3 and 7 respectively
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