Manchester Community Transport

[Mayneway]

RE: Manchester Community Transport

(23/03/2020 10:50)Mrboo Wrote:  For years MCT has pushed tenders down by bidding on the cheap as not wanting profits to same levels of the big groups but also having a low paid workforce and with a low-cost base that is leased and have midi buses so great for tenders so have a go in cheap and get the tender and TFGM been happy as been able to get more for there money. now issue now is MCT have shown you can`t make tenders work at the rates they went in for and now others are putting in far higher bids but TFGM are like unable to sign off on the tenders as they dont have the money as they been used to MCT rates. There very little TFGM can do they have to pay the real cost of a tenders now.

Nothing to do with the price of tenders. MCT built up a decent paying network of tendered services and were able to put cheaper tenders in on work around the better paying tenders. Sadly due to very poor management and the attitudes of some senior staff at TFGM MCT were blocked on retendering on the better paying contracts leaving them with the low paying work that won’t meet the overheads.

People go on about cheap work force, fact is there is a family run operator up the road from MCT who pay significantly less than mct do and There’s actually a waiting list for drivers to work there.

The majority of the Ashton and Oldham work along with the Cheshire contracts are good payers and would have certainly kept the wolf from the door!