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MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has awarded the contract for the supply of 4.24 million pieces of new magnetic tickets for the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Line 3.
The DOTC, in a notice of award, announced Banner Plastic Card bagged the contract worth P25 million.
Out of the 4.24 million magnetic tickets, 2 million are stored-value tickets and 2.24 million are single-journey tickets.
The awarding comes while the DOTC conducts one-on-one meetings with companies that plan to bid for the P1.72-billion automated collection fare system (ACFS) for MRT-3 and Light Rail Transit Lines 1 and 2.
The ACFS, one of the government’s public-private partnership projects, is similar to Hong Kong’s Octopus Card, which serves as a ticket and train card.
Bidding for the ACFS was supposed to have been held last August 30, but it was postponed because DOTC was still finalizing the concession agreement.
The companies that were prequalified to bid for the AFCS include:
- AF Consortium of Ayala Corp. and Metro Pacific Investments Corp.
- Comworks Consortium
- E-Trans Solutions Joint Venture Inc.
- Megawide-Suyen-Eurolink Consortium
- SM Consortium of mall magnate Henry Sy
– Rappler.com
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