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Municipal is boom sector

12th April 1990, Page 16
12th April 1990
Page 16
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• Fleet purchase and leaseback is the most significant development in the UK's publicsector competitive tendering business according to Barrie Doddington, public sector development manager of Wincanton Vehicle Rentals.

Encouraged by compulsory competitive tendering, municipal transport is probably the only area of growth in the transport industry, he says, with major companies like Wincanton, Ryder, TNT, NFC and Transfleet taking on specialist municipal managers and vehicles to win contracts.

But Doddington criticises councils for establishing tenders to suit their own ability to respond. He predicts that the Department of Environment will overturn a UK council's decision to award a contract inhouse and give it to a private contractor, for the first time this year.