MPTE losesE0.3m contract
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MERSEYSIDE Passenger Transport Executive has lost a £300,000 contract with Liverpool Education Department to provide buses to transport schoolchildren to and from playing fields and swimming baths. The contracts have been awarded to private coach operators who submitted lower tenders.
The contract was MPTE's biggest private hire contract, accounting for about one-third of the £1m earned from private hire and contract work.
MPTE operations director Gwyn Thomas said: "It is a loss of work for the executive and, of course, this could mean a re duced staff requirement. It will not mean any redundancies but it will reduce the availability of work. The contract work is the equivalent of 40 men's work."
He believed that if it had tendered as it had done in the past the MPTE would have been successful, but on this occasion it had to price each journey.