Puerto Rico

The government of Puerto Rico has a major public-private partnership (P3) procurement under way for the island state's major toll road - PR22 - but investors are asking what it is: a real toll concession or just a longterm operations contract?
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The Puerto Rico toll authority ACT (in its Spanish initials) says in a court filling in San Juan PR that United Toll Systems (UTS) is offering a cash toll system that stands to save them at least $20m/year in theft of revenues.

"None of the other proposals... put an end to this chilling depletion of public funds," the ACT says in a filing with the state Court of Appeals to deny a TransCore motion to quash the contract award to UTS and transfer it to TransCore. 1736 words  read more »

TransCore has filed a motion in the court of appeals in San Juan calling for a freeze on the award of a contract for cash toll systems upgrades and seven years of operations by the Puerto Rico toll authority ACT to rival UTS. They called the procedures followed by ACT, the PR toll authority - cancellation of the competitive procurement followed soon after by the announcement of a negotiated contract with UTS - "the most shameless way of justifying the unjustifiable."
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United Toll Systems (UTS) has been awarded the big toll systems upgrade and 7-year operations contract by the Puerto Rico state toll authority Autoridad de Carreteras Y Transportacion (ACT) amid great controversy. UTS's bid was the high one in competition with InTrans, the established supplier and operator of cash and toll plaza systems and TransCore the electronic tolling vendor and operator of the local brand AutoExpreso.
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Puerto Rico is just passing the half million mark in transponders sold, and has around 400k in use. About 35% of toll transactions overall are now being conducted the with the eGo sticker-tag transponders marketed under the brandname AutoExpreso, and in peak hours the proportion is about 65%.
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