I think we can add the caveat of reluctantly with some twists ( i.e no profits to be taken in first 5 years).
Competitive Dialogue= we don't actually have any plans for services just some generic broad brush aspirations? Help us as were behind the game thanks to the previous Ministers obsession with ownership model?
Kelois winning bid details are on the same page in a lot of respect with the RUG's around Wales and the Borders surprisingly so. If WG left a void then the Rail User Groups have happily filled it, comparing what we got with SARPA's aspirations/plans it almost as though there cut and paste in lot of areas
. The RAIL article is telling the Kelois mobilization Director uses the phrase "we were clever" not TfW or WG and were able to show improvements pan Wales and Borders at the expense of going Light Rail loopy around Cardiff.
However Kelois have been dealt a dud hand in the plan for PRM Compliance and Pacer extinction as they have had to inherit the plan what the Welsh Government signed up to this time last year which by all accounts is falling apart. (769's).