Still hoping that Beaulieu Park railway station and Cambridge South railway station will open next year. And the ongoing electrification on the Midland Main Line and Wigan-Bolton line. Plus what about rebuilding the missing platform at Basildon and a new station building at Wickford in Essex.
Im enjoying all these updates on a weekly basis, but sadly i need to nit pick something from this update. Why are Network rail issuing contracts to look after aspects of the network? Surely its cheaper to employ the staff yourself and have them stationed where you need, rather than spending money (like £1.3 billion) in out-source private firms to look after our public network? Wouldnt this save alot of money that can be invested in other areas of the network?
Because the people dishing out the contracts see returns in things like being handed 'non executive director' roles in those companies, or the company that won had donated enough to the Tory Party
Contracting work out to companies is a sensible business model. If they did everything in house then they’d need to maintain a huge fleet of equipment as well as pay all the pension costs of the workforce. Much more sensible to have contractual frameworks and use the efficiency of industry to deliver projects
@@chad6080 id disagree. From what ive seen about outsourcing, is things take longer to complete. If it was in-house, then yes theyd need a bigger fleet, and all the administration side of stuff. But at least Network Rail would be in control and ultimately responsible. If i ran a big business, i wouldnt consider out-sourcing. Id look at what we need to do to get the job done. Now i do agree if the work dries up and i have more staff than i need, it can be an issue, but with our rail network, theres decades of work to be done and catch up on thanks to lack of investiment and maintenance over the last 50, years.
@@admiralpegasuscc how efficient do you think a huge bloated state owned construction company would be? You can hold contractors to contractual performance. It is done all over the world in all industries because of the efficiencies of that approach. Any example of where this apparently doesn’t work will be down to poor contract design or management- not the model itself
@@chad6080 thats a fair point. But what i see from other countries, is that the work gets done 10 times faster than it does in the UK. Thats because they hire enough staff to get the job done fast. So if i ran a major business and then decided to put out a contract, id expect the job completed in a certain amount of time. Now like you say they would be under a contract and if they miss deadline, then they are in breach of said contract. So id he forced to either extend their contract, costing more money or get another contractor in, which is more money and time. But yet if i employed the staff myself, yes i have massive administration side, but its quicker to get a new supervisor in than trying and find a new contractor. But i do see where your coming from.
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Still hoping that Beaulieu Park railway station and Cambridge South railway station will open next year. And the ongoing electrification on the Midland Main Line and Wigan-Bolton line. Plus what about rebuilding the missing platform at Basildon and a new station building at Wickford in Essex.
Im enjoying all these updates on a weekly basis, but sadly i need to nit pick something from this update.
Why are Network rail issuing contracts to look after aspects of the network? Surely its cheaper to employ the staff yourself and have them stationed where you need, rather than spending money (like £1.3 billion) in out-source private firms to look after our public network? Wouldnt this save alot of money that can be invested in other areas of the network?
Because the people dishing out the contracts see returns in things like being handed 'non executive director' roles in those companies, or the company that won had donated enough to the Tory Party
Contracting work out to companies is a sensible business model. If they did everything in house then they’d need to maintain a huge fleet of equipment as well as pay all the pension costs of the workforce. Much more sensible to have contractual frameworks and use the efficiency of industry to deliver projects
@@chad6080 id disagree. From what ive seen about outsourcing, is things take longer to complete. If it was in-house, then yes theyd need a bigger fleet, and all the administration side of stuff. But at least Network Rail would be in control and ultimately responsible.
If i ran a big business, i wouldnt consider out-sourcing. Id look at what we need to do to get the job done.
Now i do agree if the work dries up and i have more staff than i need, it can be an issue, but with our rail network, theres decades of work to be done and catch up on thanks to lack of investiment and maintenance over the last 50, years.
@@admiralpegasuscc how efficient do you think a huge bloated state owned construction company would be? You can hold contractors to contractual performance. It is done all over the world in all industries because of the efficiencies of that approach. Any example of where this apparently doesn’t work will be down to poor contract design or management- not the model itself
@@chad6080 thats a fair point. But what i see from other countries, is that the work gets done 10 times faster than it does in the UK. Thats because they hire enough staff to get the job done fast.
So if i ran a major business and then decided to put out a contract, id expect the job completed in a certain amount of time.
Now like you say they would be under a contract and if they miss deadline, then they are in breach of said contract.
So id he forced to either extend their contract, costing more money or get another contractor in, which is more money and time.
But yet if i employed the staff myself, yes i have massive administration side, but its quicker to get a new supervisor in than trying and find a new contractor.
But i do see where your coming from.
Nothing in the north of England then