(24 Feb 2023, 12:17 pm)Andreos1 wrote I'd assume any operator worth their salt would have done some due-diligence on any route.
Tender, council provided data or anything else. 

It's just incompetence otherwise.

Absolutely, but if the suggestion is that the Council have provided inaccurate figures, presumably to increase the value of the tender, then that's another matter.

Of course, the other scenario is that an operator bids too low for a tender, and it then becomes loss-making due to inflated costs. Like you say though, forecasting should form part of a due-diligence process on any bid. You should always plan for the best and absolute worst case scenarios.