The previous AOH was a tender based on per trip, Comfort Bus
went in (sub some to SBST), they dint count any head, some buses
were running full, some buses practically empty, towards the end,
and you could still head to Pasir Laba at 6 pm (partly due to there
being a few night activities). If its by head then, you think you
can enter after 4 pm? TNC wouldn't want to gamble with potential
not-so-full trips after 4pm whereby they may not even recover the
cost of having the buses running. Comfort was able to make do with
empty trips as they are paid for the trips, instead of being
shortchanged.
The tender this time round is NOT by Trips.
SAF gives out the tender stating the number of expected crowd that
they would be expecting everyday during the Open House.
Bus companies would then tender for it by stating how many buses
they would be deploying on the different days and how much.
The staffs at the different departure points are counting the
number of ppl departing is actually for admin purposes. So that
they can actually decide if they shld grab any additional buses or
they shld take out extra buses. Its actually up to them. At the
same time, they record down the rego so as to have better control
over the buses. As this time round, the tender went out to TNC and
the buses belongs to different co. by recording down the departure
timings and rego would ensure that they bus drivers do not wander
off somewhere else.