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Business Opportunities
The Smart Card Alliance will post requests for proposals and requests for information for projects requiring smart card technology. Please send your business opportunities to biz-opps-listing@smartcardalliance.org.
The Smart Card Alliance reserves the right to determine what business opportunities are posted on the Alliance web site. Responses to the business opportunities posted should be sent to the contact listed in the RFP and should not be sent to the Smart Card Alliance.
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SEPTA Request For Information (RFI)
Introduction
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA or the Authority), operates a multi-modal transit system consisting of buses, trolleys, paratransit, light rail, subway and regional rail service. The service area includes the City of Philadelphia and four surrounding counties, and extends into New Jersey and Delaware.
The currently deployed fare payment and collection systems do not meet SEPTA’s needs, and are nearing the end of their useful lives. It is SEPTA’s intent to replace its existing fare payment and collection systems with a state-of-the-art, integrated, electronic fare payment, distribution, collection and processing system utilizing available best practices of modern technologies in the consumer and fare payment arenas capable of interfacing with both bank and nonbank financial clearing systems for transaction settlement. This system has been entitled “New Payment Technologies” (“NPT”) System.
The purpose of the RFI is to gather information on how best to design and deploy a state-of-the-art New Payment Technologies System for SEPTA. This RFI solicits written responses from equipment or service suppliers, systems integrators, financial institutions, consumer payment systems suppliers or other entities that have provided vending and/or payment systems.
Interested entities are encouraged to submit responses to all or parts of the RFI even if they do not have a current intention of responding to a future RFP.
Table 1 - Schedule of Events
RFI Issuance Date - March 27, 2008 4:00pm
Deadline for Submission of Respondent Questions with Respondent Release - April 11, 2008, 4:00pm
Issuance of SEPTA Response to Respondent Questions - April 24, 2008, 4:00pm
Due Date for Respondent RFI Responses with Respondent Release (if not submitted previously) - May 7, 2008, 2:00pm
Any questions or requests for interpretations arising from this RFI shall be submitted in writing to Mr. Neil Patel (or his authorized designee), by e-mail at npatel@septa.org, which shall be followed by a hard copy sent via U.S. Mail to the address indicated in Section 10 below. Respondents lacking e-mail capabilities may fax correspondence to (215) 580-8308, followed by a hard copy sent via U.S. Mail. Mr. Patel, or his authorized designee, shall be the sole point of contact for this RFI and can be reached at (215) 580-3345.
