Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), Department of Procurement, 600 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20001

25 -- VEHICULAR EQUIPMENT COMPONENTS DUE 041599 POC Point of Contact -- R. Kelly-Mitchell, Contract Administrator, 202-962-2038 by fax E-MAIL: WMATA, rkelly@wmata.com. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is soliciting expressions of interest for the procurement and installation of a Bus Far Collection System. The new system will be required to accept and register coins, tokens and currency. It will also be required to process magnetic fare cards and the smart cards (SmarTrip) to issue magnetically encoded transfers. About 1400 buses be equipped. A "best value" procurement is anticipated. The schedule is as follows: Specification released for proposals -- summer of 1999, award-fall 1999 delivery of the demonstration equipment -- summer 2002. Installation of the remaining buses-winter 2002 through winter 2003 at a rate of about 30 buses per week. Qualified and interested firms are invited to submit an expression of interest with their qualifications. Posted 03/19/99 (D-SN310751). (0078)

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