RTC selects companies to move forward in competition for bus contracts

Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 | 2:14 p.m.

A bus transportation company that sued the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada after a nine-month contract stalemate failed to make the cut when the RTC rebid the contract with a revamped process. Cincinnati-based First Transit, the original winning bidder when a seven-year contract was first approved by the RTC board in 2011, won’t be moving on to the next step of the process to determine which two transit companies will operate and maintain fixed-route bus service in the Las Vegas Valley. As part of a court settlement with First Transit, the RTC agreed last year that it would use ...

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By NCPardner

Nov. 8, 2012

3:12 p.m.

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Whatever company wins the contract needs to be subject to regular performance reviews. The current operators (Veolia) are definitely due for a review.