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Andrew Jones
Stagecoach is an experienced bidder and fully aware of the franchise competition rules, so it is regrettable that it submitted a non-compliant bid that breached the established rules. In doing so, Stagecoach is responsible for its own disqualification. Bidders were invited to bid on the basis of a pension deficit recovery mechanism. They knew that at the very start of the process.
[Official Report, 11 April 2019, Vol. 658, c. 460.]
Letter of correction from the Under-Secretary of State for Transport:
An error has been identified in the response I gave to the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts).
The correct response should have been:
Andrew Jones
Stagecoach is an experienced bidder and fully aware of the franchise competition rules, so it is regrettable that it submitted a non-compliant bid that breached the established rules. In doing so, Stagecoach is responsible for its own disqualification. Bidders were invited to bid on the basis of a pension deficit recovery mechanism. They knew that was part of the process.