California state officials have released a list of seven bidders it intends to award contracts to for the supply of core technology for the state’s ambitious plan to help more than 300 transit agencies roll out open-loop fare payments statewide.
The list of vendors proposed for the awards of five-year contracts include those that have worked on pilots this year of the state’s innovative modular approach to procurement of open-loop fare-collection systems. The request for proposal, issued last summer by the state, called for hiring multiple suppliers as part of two contracts–actually master service agreements–one for validators and other payments acceptance devices and the other one for back-office software to calculate fares.
The two vendors that scored the highest on the non-cost evaluations by the state are validator supplier Kuba and fare-calculation software and payments service provider Littlepay, Mobility Payments has learned.
