Ministers have scrapped the decision to award the West Coast Main Line rail franchise to FirstGroup saying the bidding process was flawed.
The contract - awarded in August - was immediately challenged in the courts by Virgin Trains, which lost out.
Ministers say there were "significant technical flaws" in the way the risks for each bid were calculated and say the bidding process must be rerun.
- BBC News - West Coast Main Line deal ditched
The contract - awarded in August - was immediately challenged in the courts by Virgin Trains, which lost out.
Ministers say there were "significant technical flaws" in the way the risks for each bid were calculated and say the bidding process must be rerun.
- BBC News - West Coast Main Line deal ditched
Useless twonks
EDIT: here's the DfT press release, which seems to have been published in the middle of the night: http://www.dft.gov.uk/news/press-rel...ress-20121003a
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