SOUTH FLORIDA REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 05 - 722
Universal Automated Fare Collection System
The South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA), an agency of the State of
THE PURPOSE of this RFP is for SFRTA/Tri-Rail to acquire the services of a qualified firm to provide design, manufacture and installation of hardware and software for a regional Universal Automated Fare Collection System. This new regional fare media vending, collection and processing system will be used by four public transportation agencies in the South Florida region; SFRTA/Tri-Rail, Miami-Dade Transit (MDT), Broward County Transit (BCT) and Palm Tran. The tasks in this RFP include but are not limited to: hardware design, manufacturing, software development, integration, equipment installation and training of the system.
This RFP solicits written responses (“proposals”) from qualified Proposers interested in providing the equipment and services needed for successful completion of this Project. SFRTA must point out to all Proposers that progression of some services for this contract will only be awarded predicated on receipt of funds received to progress this work. SFRTA and its regional partners have every intention of progressing all UAFC services defined in the Technical Specifications.
A REQUEST FOR DOCUMENTS should be directed to Mr. Ben Guida at SFRTA, 800 N.W. 33 Street,
A PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCE will be held in the SFRTA Board Room at the address above on April 25, 2006 at 9:00 A.M. The purpose of the meeting will be for SFRTA to respond to questions from document holders and clarify requirements in an open forum. Attendance is not mandatory but is recommended. Following the Pre-Proposal Conference will be site-visits of agency facilities on April 25th, 26th and 27th. Prospective Proposers interested in attending the site visits are required to RSVP by calling Charmaine Davis-Matthei at (954) 788-7905 no later than April 14th, 4 P.M. Local Time to allow for appropriate accommodations.
RECEIPT OF SEALED PROPOSALS: All proposals must be received as per the RFP instructions no later than 5:00 P.M. Local Time on June 7, 2006 at the SFRTA office address listed above.
SFRTA reserves the right to postpone, to accept, or reject any and all proposals in whole or in part. All Firms shall certify that they are not on the State of Florida Comptroller General’s List of Ineligible Bidders. All proposals shall remain in effect for One Hundred Eighty (180) days from the RFP submission due date.
DBE PARTICIPATION: SFRTA solicits and encourages Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation. DBEs will be afforded full consideration of their responses and will not be subject to discrimination. The DBE participation goal for this solicitation is 13%. MDT will have a separate DBE goal and program established for its portion of the procurement.
NOTIFICATION OF FEDERAL PARTICIPATION: A portion of this project is funded by a grant from the Federal Transit Administration. Any resultant Agreement shall be subject to all federal rules and regulations.
CONE OF SILENCE: Any verbal or written communications between any Proposer (potential or actual), or its representatives and any SFRTA Board member, staff member, committee member, consultant or SFRTA’s regional partners (Miami-Dade County, Broward County and Palm Beach County), regarding this procurement are strictly prohibited from the date of the Request for Proposal (RFP) advertisement through the date of execution of the contract. The only exceptions to this are: (1) written requests regarding information or clarification made to SFRTA’s designated contract specialist during the allowable time period under the solicitation; (2) any communications at a publicly noticed meeting of SFRTA; and (3) any communications with the SFRTA Director of Procurement. Any violation of the requirements set forth in this section shall constitute grounds for immediate and permanent disqualification of the Proposer/violator from participation in this procurement.
PARTNERING OR TEAMING: SFRTA encourages partnering or teaming among industry firms for this procurement. Such partnering or teaming could result in a successful proposal that provides the best combination of value and technical innovation.
Christopher C. Bross, CPPO, FCPM
Director, Procurement