West Coast Mainline Contract Called-Off by the Government
The contract of the West Coast Mainline which was given to the FirstGroup in order of looking for the running of this line has been called-off by the Government. The main reason behind this, which is going around in the air is that they have found out some serious amount of problems in the process of bidding. There are chances that this bid will be running again. The Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin voiced that there quite a few problems as far as the summing up the level of risk was concerned. He had to add that there were troubles in some fields such as in the calculation of the rate of inflation and also the number of passengers. As a consequence, the things were not looking fine.
Virgin Trains had lost the bid against the First Group where the group had put up a bid whose worth was 5.5 billion pounds. The Virgin group in the starting time only have raised very serious concerns that that their rival party has done some wrong-doing, as a consequence of which the contract will be facing major troubles in the future. Get cash advance till your next payday up to 200 apply at 200 loans @ http://www.200loans.org.uk/
After the annulment of the contract, McLoughlin is of the view that new autonomous probes should be done in this regard. In the first one, an investigation should be made that what had wrong at the time when the competition for the West Coast was going on, and the second investigation should have a look into the franchise programme that had failed. He also made an addition that now since this problem has been seen, it is quite possible that the involved members of the staff of the Department for Transport, might get suspension orders.
Philip Rutnam, permanent secretary of the DfT was quite concerned to this mistake which was committed.
McLoughlin informed that he had called-off the competition which was being held that who will be looking after the running of the West Coast franchise mainly because was very much concerned. He also said that it is not at all expected that such a department could do such errors in such an important process.
He had asked some of his official to investigate into this matter and they only came out with the findings that there were some very serious mistakes. As a result, the only right thing was to cancel the bid which was as per this competition which had taken place sometime back.
Virgin Trains had lost the bid against the First Group where the group had put up a bid whose worth was 5.5 billion pounds. The Virgin group in the starting time only have raised very serious concerns that that their rival party has done some wrong-doing, as a consequence of which the contract will be facing major troubles in the future. Get cash advance till your next payday up to 200 apply at 200 loans @ http://www.200loans.org.uk/
After the annulment of the contract, McLoughlin is of the view that new autonomous probes should be done in this regard. In the first one, an investigation should be made that what had wrong at the time when the competition for the West Coast was going on, and the second investigation should have a look into the franchise programme that had failed. He also made an addition that now since this problem has been seen, it is quite possible that the involved members of the staff of the Department for Transport, might get suspension orders.
Philip Rutnam, permanent secretary of the DfT was quite concerned to this mistake which was committed.
McLoughlin informed that he had called-off the competition which was being held that who will be looking after the running of the West Coast franchise mainly because was very much concerned. He also said that it is not at all expected that such a department could do such errors in such an important process.
He had asked some of his official to investigate into this matter and they only came out with the findings that there were some very serious mistakes. As a result, the only right thing was to cancel the bid which was as per this competition which had taken place sometime back.