NYC central area toll RFEI gets in usual suspects plus/minus (ADDITION)

New York City's request for expressions of interest in their $400m+ congestion pricing system got responses from many of the major toll system players plus a lot of lesser knowns. The biggies in US toll system work who filed responses were TransCore, Raytheon, and ACS.

No ETC, TRMI, Caseta, UTS, TTI or InTranS.

Plenty of companies with key expertise and local experience who could team with others: Diamond, PBS&J, Steer Davies, Wilbur Smith, Autostrade, Accenture, ATS, PIPS, PBS&J.

No SAIC, HNTB, DMJM Harris, Carter Burgess, or PB.

Mark IV responded. As the sole source supplier of E-ZPass transponders and readers these canny Canadians are about 99.999% certain to garner some substantial extra business out this project by selling toll gear, though they don't do system integration.

Strong companies in tolling overseas appear too: Kapsch, Capita, Thales, Booz Allen, Alcatel, IBM, Siemens.

No show by Efkon, GEA, Ascom, Deloitte.

Perhaps the most interesting may be several companies offering roadside equipment-light solutions - devices that may challenge the vehicle-roadside RF systems and cameras that use satellite positioning or mobile telecom. For example Siemens, Skymeter, FlexToll.

There's a few companies we don't know, some we probably should know (others may be not worth knowing.)

About two-thirds of the submissions are posted to the NYCEDC website to be downloaded after filling in a form:

http://www.nycedc.com/Web/AVAILABLEPROJECTS/RFPsRFQsRFEIs/Congestion+Pricing+RFEI+Responses.htm

A few spoilsports got their submissions classified secret and are not available. They deserve a one point handicap each in NYCEDC scoring.

TOLLROADSnews 2007-11-15

ADDITION: Other contracts in play and some no-shows may show after all

One of the companies we mentioned as a "no show" points out:

1. You didn't have to respond to this request for expressions of interest to actually respond to the request for proposals for the Design Build Operate Manage (DBOM) when that request is made.

2. Some no-shows may be partnering with the shows - kind of hidden shows.

3. The DBOM isn't the only NYC congestion pricing game. There are also a program management and resident engineer contractors to be chosen. But the program manager and resident engineers can't also be on the DBOM side of the job, so some no-shows for DBOM may be shows on the program management and resident engineer side.

Thanks for the correction.

TOLLROADSnews 2007-11-16