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Miami-Dade County this week declined to change the evaluator scores in its procurement of a new account-based ticketing back office, leaving Cubic with its No. 1 rank intact. Other vendors had complained that, among other issues, an “exclusive partnership” between Cubic and hardware supplier Genfare amounted to unfair competition.
Masabi had finished first in a tight race, with moovel close behind, after the first round. Cubic surpassed Masabi by only 10 points out of more than 4,500 in total in the second round.
• Miami-Dade County
• Cubic
• Genfare
• Masabi
• Moovel
• Indra
• DTPW (Miami)
• INIT
Miami-Dade County adjourned a special meeting of its Competitive Selection Committee after only 11 minutes when none of the five evaluators on the committee said they wanted to change their scores that had resulted in Cubic Transportation Systems’ No. 1 ranking for the county’s roughly $40 million back-office contract.
County officials had reconvened the committee this week after receiving complaints from at least three rival vendors that had finished above Cubic in the first evaluation round. That was before Cubic vaulted into first place following oral presentations in the second and final round. The three vendors had cited problems with how the county had conducted the procurement, including allowing Cubic and hardware supplier Genfare to promote
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