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Traveller Information Services in the region around The Hague (Winner of the Intertraffic Innovation Award 2006) Mr. Gerben Schuhmacher Senior legal advisor Ministry of Transport and Watermanagement. Evaluation of the process. Cooperation between authorities Public Private Partnership
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Traveller Information Services in the region around The Hague (Winner of the Intertraffic Innovation Award 2006) Mr. Gerben Schuhmacher Senior legal advisor Ministry of Transport and Watermanagement
Evaluation of the process • Cooperation between authorities • Public Private Partnership • An innovative public tender • Initiative to private sector • The lessons learned
Cooperation between authorities • Three authorities joined forces • Political commitment • Joined budget of € 3.5 million • Joined projectteam • Only one authority was in charge
The Challenge • Idea came from the private sector • Luteijn committee offered a platform for debate between public and private sector • Let’s work together to solve the problems • Challenge the creativity of the the private sector
An innovative tender • A European call for tender (english) • An open defined problem: we have a problem, who has the best answer in terms of a business case • A huge market reaction • 7 submissions of high quality, all consortia, several with foreign partners
Tenderprocedure • Invitation to Qualify • Selection of maximum 10 competitors • Invitation for Initiational Bids • Selection of 3 bidders • Invitation for Negotiations • Selection of Preferred Bidder • Contract Close
An open tender needs strickt rules • A strickt format for the bids, every bid consists of the same components • Strickt internal rules for the assesment team (supervised by an independent tenderboard) • Extra independent assessors • The price was fixed at € 3.5 mln
Assesment Criteria • Comparing ‘apples with peers’ can be done: both are fruit • Quality • Feasibility • Rentability • Interoperability
Initiative to the private sector • The whole chain in one private hand: • Data collecting • Data processing to usefull information • Service providing to various types of users • The roll of the government: a good old subsidy
Public Private Partnership? • Inventor: private • Intiator: public • Developer: private • Promotor: public • Explotations: private
The lessons learned • The open tender was a succes • Cooperation between authorities is very difficult. The choice for one authority in charge was good • Communication is very important • Don’t promise more than you can deliver
A year after • The service is completely operational • Implementation was difficult (those damned permits) • It works: I tried during the hurricane • It is definit not yet a commercial succes (consumers want it for free) • Commercial changes in BtB and BtG