Greater Manchester Tenders

[Mayneway]

RE: Greater Manchester Tenders

(19/01/2022 10:13)knutstransport Wrote:  MCT advertised themselves as a not-for-profit where any money made from contracted services which would be invested in to community services. I don't know how true that was in reality but if MCT were looking to at least break even when Stagecoach and Arriva were looking to return money to shareholders, it's obvious why MCT won the contracts.

Well it’s very true. Look at the HCT group who owned MCT. They do exactly the same in London, Bristol and Yorkshire and it works well.
You can only undercut if you know what your competitors are willing to get paid to run a tender. They put in a price that they believed they could operate the tenders at, and did so very well for many years.