(09 Jun 2014, 1:50 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Why should Nexus or SNE have to pick up the pieces when GNE decide there isn't enough of a buck in it for them though?

They shouldn't, simple as that.

GNE are the ones who have decided not to run the service. If passengers are being inconvenienced, that is not Nexus or SNE's fault.

For all we know, both Nexus and SNE have approached/discussed the issue of buzzfare ticket acceptance (or vice versa).

Regardless of how the tendering service works, there is the issue of reimbursement, the politics and technicalities that go with it.
SNE accepting GNE tickets, cuts into their margins - unless the cost can be recovered.
To do that, SNE need to provided auditable evidence that a GNE ticket has been presented to Nexus or GNE. How can they do that under the current system?

Of course Nexus, could offer the tender to the daytime operator.
Passengers are less inconvenienced, but taxpayers across Tyne & Wear are penalised as a result.

Maybe they shouldn't, but this happens up and down the country - regardless of what our opinions may be on the matter.

If Stagecoach North East and Go North East have approached Nexus in the past for Go North East tickets to be accepted on the evening variation of the service, I have got nothing to complain about. The fact of the matter is that it does not happen on service 39, but there is evidence of it happening elsewhere in the North East, which would lead to the assumption that the respective operators have not approached Nexus about the matter.
As such, whilst the passenger inconvenience may ultimately be due to Go North East deciding that the service is not commercially viable, Stagecoach North East (or Nexus, if GNE and SNE did approach them about it) are also partly to blame.

Taxpayers are going to be footing the bill in some way or another regardless, so I really don't see why it would be such an issue to provide greater passenger convenience...