Transantiago bidding rules go for comptroller review

Bidding rules for providing customer services for Chilean capital Santiago's public transport plan Transantiago have gone to the comptroller general for review, Transantiago public relations officer Rubén Cisterna told BNamericas. "The next step of the process would be to report on the possible changes made by the comptroller, followed by publication of the bidding rules," Cisterna said. Part of the service required is management of the Multivía prepay fare card for public transport users to access the 1,157 articulated and 510 standard buses running along 10 trunk lines and five feeder lines. Interested companies can submit bids on June 24, the public works ministry announced on its website, for which they should present a guarantee deposit based on an inflation-indexed unit, the UF, worth a total of about US$890,000.