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California Road Charge Pilot Project – request for proposals

D’Artagnan Consulting has been retained by California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) as the prime contractor to assist the Caltrans with formulation, design, management and implementation of the California Road Charge Pilot Program. A key element of the program is the California Road Charge Pilot Project, which will demonstrate and evaluate an operational road charge system with 5000 volunteer vehicles from summer 2016 to spring 2017.
November 10, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
6219 D’Artagnan Consulting has been retained by 923 California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) as the prime contractor to assist the Caltrans with formulation, design, management and implementation of the California Road Charge Pilot Program. A key element of the program is the California Road Charge Pilot Project, which will demonstrate and evaluate an operational road charge system with 5000 volunteer vehicles from summer 2016 to spring 2017.

Following the vendor workshop on 4 November, D’Artagnan is requesting proposals from vendors who wish to be considered for: Commercial Account Managers: at least two to provide automated account management functions; State Account Manager to provide end-to-end manual account management functions, including time-based road charge permits, mileage-block permits, and an odometer charge; Three automated mileage measurement and reporting technologies: OBD-II, Smartphone and Telematics, at least one of which must use general location to report only taxable miles (in-state on public roads); Commercial vehicle mileage meter and account manager to provide end-to-end account management functions and accompanying technology for commercial vehicles.

The proposal due date is 5pm Pacific Time on 4 December 2015. Submissions for this RFP must be submitted by that time to: %$Linker: 2 Email <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkEmail [email protected] email address [email protected] false mailto:[email protected] true false%>. Please contact Steve Morello for further information: %$Linker: 2 Email <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkEmail [email protected] email address [email protected] false mailto:[email protected] true false%>

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