The toll project “Grindgut” would revolutionize life for motorists and make life on the road cheaper.
Instead, it was a million failure of NPRA.
Aftenposten recently revealed how the alarm went off in the national ICT project already after a few months, but that it would take eighteen months before someone pulled the emergency brake.
Currently there are motorists who are left with giant bill.
new million on the table
Now jerk Road Administration back to the start, adding new million on the table to develop an entirely new system. Meanwhile, the extended agreement with the current provider Q-Free in three years.
– It is now important to put in place a system that will replace this. It is the job we have begun, in cooperation with toll companies, writes Jane Bordal, Director of Public Roads, in an email to Aftenposten.
She will not elaborate on the status of the project today, or when further details are clear.
– It is too early to say anything about, she writes, and notes that they are ” dialogue with the Ministry about how this work will be continued. “
new study, new million
But before that time, new million on the table, in a new attempt to create future toll solution – a solution that should have been in place last year.
– Currently, there is set of 5.4 million for a study phase, said Bordal.
When asked if they start completely to zero, or if some of the work from the failed “Grindgut” project continued, she replies:
– We are of course with us experiences as well Grindgut project as from other ongoing projects in future work.
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– the technology exists
Einar Lutro , Conservative politician and longstanding chairman of the toll company Hardangerbrua, is puzzled by the spending. He believes existing technology can take care of the future collection, without the need to develop entirely new systems from scratch.
– Why not entrust the collection to the card companies? They already have a worldwide system that works, says Lutro.
– There are transponders you can have the car that takes cards. All have a credit card. Then simply insert it into the chip and record the transaction, he said.
Lutro says he has pointed this out repeatedly in Grindgut process, “without getting ear.”
– It seems that the NPRA have difficulty dropping something from him, and will take care of everything from A to itself, he said.
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– Got choose
Bordal would not comment on the initiative of Lutro but says bidders in the tender process itself could choose whether they went for an “off the shelf” or something proprietary.
– We went out with a competition where our needs within the system solution was specified. Suppliers could even choose the solution they thought was best to fulfill our needs.
NPRA now has three more years in which to put in place a new system within the extended agreement with Q-Free going out in July 2019.
not selected strategy for new project
Whether it will be based on already developed and proven technology, or designed from scratch – as in the last round – is currently in the blue.
– Supplier Strategy for future solution is not chosen. We have conducted a supplier seminar to get input about what’s in the market. It is too early to say anything more about this at this time, writes Bordal Aftenposten.
2012: ” Grindgut “project start up and managed by the NPRA / Roads. Development will finance the toll road companies.
2013 IBM wins tender results, but competitor, BT Signaal, believes they should have had contact and takes case to court. The case is rejected, and in December signed IBM and NPRA contract.
2014: The project work will start in January. In June / July there has already been reports of concern about poor progress and increased costs. Steering discussing other options and cancellation of the contract.
2014: In October delivers a hired consulting company a report that reveals serious deficiencies in the work so far.
2015 in June reinforces a new consultant report concern at Road Administration that the project is trying to track completely . July 27 raises Road Administration contract and alerts damages. IBM responds in kind.
2016: The company Q-Free has since 2007 provided the current system for toll collection through a lease agreement with the Government NPRA. This would be replaced by the new “Grindgut System ‘, but in the absence of a new system will be agreement in March extended by three years – at a value of 170 million.
2016: BT Signaal, who lost the tender on the line, getting in April upheld the court of Appeal that IBM won the contract in error – and that BT Signaal’d gotten the project. The judgment appealed not and Road Administration have to pay close to 27 million in damages and costs.
2016: The state is expected to deliver its subpoena IBM by the end of August.
Controversial competitive bidding
It was IBM in 2013 got the lucrative contract worth 190 million, after a contentious bidding process against the Bergen-based company BT Signaal.
the goal was a centralized system for collecting the tolls, which in turn would give cheaper passages and shorter lifespan for toll rings.
Aftenposten know the cry warning shortly after IBM began developing. A centrally placed source has previously stated that internally were “reported red very early, meaning that the project had significant risk”.
today there are around 50 toll operators in the country. They are independent companies, often owned by the county or municipality, which will partially finance road projects.
Payment is made through the public system Autopass. It is owned by the NPRA, which sets the central ICT solution available for toll companies.
NPRA is responsible for the solution, while the management is done in collaboration with companies .
most toll in Norway are automatic and can be passed without stopping.
the government has, to streamline the collection, suggested reducing the number of toll operators to between three and five.
Sources: NPRA / Autopass.no
13 months later raised NPRA contract, and thus jerked back to start with an unfinished IT system which, according to them yourself is completely useless.
NPRA and IBM is now leading to a legal settlement. Parties requires that counterparty covering all expenses, in addition to compensation from each other.
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