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Kapsch TrafficCom AG challenges tendering decision on Slovakian toll system
Kapsch TrafficCom is to file an objection against the awarding of tenders in connection with the realisation and operation of an electronic truck toll system for the Slovakian Republic. The consortium led by Kapsch TrafficCom was notified last week of having been eliminated from the tendering procedure for the countrywide electronic truck toll system to be set up in Slovakia.
The so-called “shortcomings” in the offer submitted by Kapsch which are referred to in the written statement from NDS are viewed by Kapsch as not valid, neither from a legal nor from a factual point of view. Kapsch TrafficCom has already set up Austria’s and the Czech Republic’s truck toll systems and is the technical and commercial operator of the Czech system. On a global scale, the company can boast more than 140 installed toll systems in 30 countries.
“From our point of view the offer submitted by Kapsch TrafficCom was appropriate for the conditions of tender. For this reason, we are astounded by the decision made by NDS which cannot be backed up by expert opinion. It seems that here a bidder with international experience has been excluded due to supposed shortcomings”, declares Georg Kapsch, CEO, Kapsch TrafficCom AG. “Kapsch TrafficCom will therefore utilise all legal means available to oppose this decision and will officially object”.
Kapsch TrafficCom AG is an international provider of innovative traffic telematics systems, products and services. Kapsch TrafficCom develops and supplies mainly electronic toll systems (Electronic Toll Collection - ETC), especially Multi-Lane Free-Flow (MLFF) ETC systems, and offers to carry out the technical and commercial operation of these systems. In addition, Kapsch TrafficCom offers traffic management solutions that focus on traffic safety and traffic influencing, electronic access control systems and parking space management. With more than 140 toll systems installed worldwide in 30 countries in Europe, Australia, Latin America, the Asia-Pacific region and South Africa, with a total of more than eleven million transponders and 11,000 equipped lanes, Kapsch TrafficCom has positioned itself as one of the world’s market leaders in ETC systems. Kapsch TrafficCom has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria, and has subsidiaries and representative offices in 18 countries.
