Rail Users Ireland Forum - View Single Post - European Commission Putting Pressure on Goverment to Tender Rail Services

Mark Gleeson · 30-07-2015, 21:39

Firstly clearly there is a goal to reduce costs through a competitive tender process. As we have seen with Irish Rail its amazing the cost reductions you can get when the screw is turned.

We are expecting a far more rigid contract and tighter targets and performance specifications

Revenue will likely go to NTA direct and the operator is paid a fixed fee to provide the service with options and risks at the operators side if they want to go beyond the contract. Bonus etc for exceeding targets and so on.

A good example of this would be LOROL in London, aka London Overground, run by MTR/DB that turned out to be one of the best moves made in transport in London in recent memory.

MTR just got the contract for London Crossrail operations and its MD is the Irish Rail manager who gave you hourly Cork services...

Potential bidders are everything from
Translink (mad but know the turf and have RSC approval)
MTR (Hong Kong Metro),
DB (aka Arriva),
Keolis (SNCF),
Stagecoach,
Abellio (Dutch Railways),
National Express,
First Group

Many of these were involved in the bidding for Metro North

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Mark Gleeson Technical Officer Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Coach C, Seat 33 Posts: 12,669	Firstly clearly there is a goal to reduce costs through a competitive tender process. As we have seen with Irish Rail its amazing the cost reductions you can get when the screw is turned. We are expecting a far more rigid contract and tighter targets and performance specifications Revenue will likely go to NTA direct and the operator is paid a fixed fee to provide the service with options and risks at the operators side if they want to go beyond the contract. Bonus etc for exceeding targets and so on. A good example of this would be LOROL in London, aka London Overground, run by MTR/DB that turned out to be one of the best moves made in transport in London in recent memory. MTR just got the contract for London Crossrail operations and its MD is the Irish Rail manager who gave you hourly Cork services... Potential bidders are everything from Translink (mad but know the turf and have RSC approval) MTR (Hong Kong Metro), DB (aka Arriva), Keolis (SNCF), Stagecoach, Abellio (Dutch Railways), National Express, First Group Many of these were involved in the bidding for Metro North __________________ Unhappy with new timetable - let us know Last edited by Mark Gleeson : 30-07-2015 at 21:47.