View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Sydney eScholarship Seventh International Conference on Com petition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport M olde, Norway, 25-28 June 2001 PAPER TITLE Com petitive Tendering for Bus Services: The Im proved Adelaide M odel AUTHORS Ian Wallis David Bray M anager – Public Transport Principal Booz·Allen & Hamilton (New Zealand) Ltd Econom ic and Policy Services Pty Ltd ADDRESS: Level 8, Wool House PO Box 448 10 Brandon Street North Adelaide PO Box 10926 SA 5006 Wellington AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND TELEPHONE: +64 4 915 7777 +61 412 102 495 FAX: +64 4 915 7755 +61 8 8267 6609 EM AIL:
[email protected] [email protected] .au ABSTRACT: In 1994 the Government of South Australia initiated a process to contract out scheduled bus services in metropolitan Adelaide. The services, which currently involve use of about 760 buses that carry 47 million passengers per year in a service area of 880 square kilometres, had been operated by a Governm ent organisation. Services were contracted out prim arily on an areas basis, with ten area and four route contracts. By 1996 two contracts had been awarded to a private operator and three to the Governm ent operator following two rounds of com petitive tendering. Rem aining services were provided by the Governm ent operator through negotiated contracts. A review of the bus contracting system was undertaken in 1998, and features of the system modified, including a reduction in the num ber of contracts to six area and one route contract.