Grande West’s Vicinity Awarded Iowa State Transportation Contract

Grande West Transportation has announced that Alliance Bus Group has been awarded a state contract to purchase in Iowa Department of Transportation.

Grande West’s U.S. distributor, ABG was successful in winning the Iowa DOT bid for Vicinity 30- and 35-foot heavy-duty diesel vehicles, with options for CNG. This bid is conducted on behalf of Iowa’s 35 designated public transit agencies, state of Iowa governmental agencies, state board of regents, and other states’ public transit agencies that are in the same metropolitan planning organization as a designated public transit agency. The Bid is in place until October 2020. There is no minimum or maximum bus quantities, orders from the various agencies is subject to funding and agency needs.

Robert Mowat, VP, sales and marketing of Grande West commented, “We are very pleased with the results of the Iowa State bid. We continue to see new opportunities to Right-Size fleets in the U.S.. This is our third U.S. contract win in the past few months, expanding our potential 2019 order flow substantially.”