59 -- Automatic Fare Collection Equipment

?The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is soliciting expressions of interest in providing Automatic Fare Collection equipment that would be compatible with Cubic?s equipment for three metrorail stations. Equipment would include fare gates, fare card vendors, AFC Station Controllers and connections to the WMATA mainframe computer. The proposed equipment must be integrated with the existing fare collection system to the extent that it must allow full compatibility and interchangeability of the existing SmarTrip smart card andmagnetic fare media between the old and the new equipment. Information reported to the WMATA mainframe computer must be consistent with the existing system. The existing AFC system was manufactured by Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc. of San Diego, CA. Anticipated requirements are 40 fare gates, 31 farecard vendors, 8 exitfare machines, 4 AFC Station Controllers, 12 Bus Transfer Machines, Smart Card Equipment for 7 Parking Lots, associated equipment including spare parts, training and documentation and the installation of the system. Options may be included for additional equipment. Expressions of interest should be forwarded to Jonathan Cole at contact@example.gov by February 15, 2002 or write to Jonathan Cole, WMATA, Department of Procurement & Materiel, 600 Fifth Street, N. W. Washington, D.C. 20001.