mac5689 Posted March 22, 2015 Share #1 Posted March 22, 2015 On March 20th Newsday reported that Huntington Area Rapid Transit will soon put in service fifteen new buses, 80% financed by federal mass transit aid. Seven will be 20-passenger Spirit of Mobility buses built by ARBOC Specialty Vehicles, at $175,000 each. They will operate on the four fixed routes, together with three hybrids that will stay in service, they will also buy eight paratransit buses are being bought from Shepard Brothers, Canandaigua, for $53,368. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BM5 via Woodhaven Posted March 22, 2015 Share #2 Posted March 22, 2015 I would've prefer the Spirit of Liberty bus better, since it looks more like a transit bus. Now, it's gonna be just like all those other small bus operators (with paratransit like buses), if they keep ordering such buses (I know they'll still have those hybrids). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac5689 Posted March 22, 2015 Author Share #3 Posted March 22, 2015 Here is a link to a photo of one of the new buses. http://patch.com/new-york/huntington/hart-adds-15-new-buses-fleet-0 and a link to THE tOWN of Huntington. http://www.huntingtonny.gov/news/?FeedID=1243 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrstone Posted March 26, 2015 Share #4 Posted March 26, 2015 Yikes! Good to see they went to Coach & Equipment, a NY company, for the para buses but Spirit of America? If they are going to buy cut away vans, why an Indiana company? I know "price" is always the answer but they could have easily gone with Coach & Equipment's Pheonix model and kept the money in NY, going to NY workers and NY families! There should be additional grants from the state to suport busineses in state! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaveragejoe Posted March 26, 2015 Share #5 Posted March 26, 2015 Yikes! Good to see they went to Coach & Equipment, a NY company, for the para buses but Spirit of America? If they are going to buy cut away vans, why an Indiana company? I know "price" is always the answer but they could have easily gone with Coach & Equipment's Pheonix model and kept the money in NY, going to NY workers and NY families! There should be additional grants from the state to suport busineses in state! All comes down on who put in the lowest compliant bid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrstone Posted March 27, 2015 Share #6 Posted March 27, 2015 That's why I said "I know 'price' is always the answer" lol and no, it doesn't always come down to who puts in the lowest bid. It usually plays out that way but not always. Some other things in taken into consideration is record for on time delivery, length of time in business, quality of work (and reputation for quality of work or lack there of in the industry) being in the same state/area etc. For all we know Shepard Bro.s could have put in a much lower compliant bid bur ARBOC offered a year or lifetime of free maintenance. You never know, until you read the RFP's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac5689 Posted March 27, 2015 Author Share #7 Posted March 27, 2015 That's why I said "I know 'price' is always the answer" lol and no, it doesn't always come down to who puts in the lowest bid. It usually plays out that way but not always. Some other things in taken into consideration is record for on time delivery, length of time in business, quality of work (and reputation for quality of work or lack there of in the industry) being in the same state/area etc. For all we know Shepard Bro.s could have put in a much lower compliant bid bur ARBOC offered a year or lifetime of free maintenance. You never know, until you read the RFP's... I don't think it really mattered about anything else. 80% was brought with money from the Fed and from what I understand when you use federal money you have to go with the lowest bid no matter what. Yikes! Good to see they went to Coach & Equipment, a NY company, for the para buses but Spirit of America? If they are going to buy cut away vans, why an Indiana company? I know "price" is always the answer but they could have easily gone with Coach & Equipment's Pheonix model and kept the money in NY, going to NY workers and NY families! There should be additional grants from the state to suport busineses in state! The model is Spirit of Mobility not Spirit of America. Unless you ment something else by saying Sprit of America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrstone Posted March 28, 2015 Share #8 Posted March 28, 2015 No, it was late and I typed Spirit of America by mistake.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaveragejoe Posted March 28, 2015 Share #9 Posted March 28, 2015 That's why I said "I know 'price' is always the answer" lol and no, it doesn't always come down to who puts in the lowest bid. It usually plays out that way but not always. Some other things in taken into consideration is record for on time delivery, length of time in business, quality of work (and reputation for quality of work or lack there of in the industry) being in the same state/area etc. For all we know Shepard Bro.s could have put in a much lower compliant bid bur ARBOC offered a year or lifetime of free maintenance. You never know, until you read the RFP's... That is why I said lowest compliant bid and not lowest bid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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