NPRA, the Transport Office and the Ministry of Transport has jammed in a quagmire of an IT project.
” Grindgut “would be a new, centralized management system for toll collection which was to reduce drivers’ costs and shorten the life of existing tolls.
instead, bompengefiaskoen end with a million expense to motorists for an unfinished and unusable IT system .
It is decided in an upcoming straight showdown between the Ministry of Transport and IT giant IBM.
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 – as “Grindgut” would streamline .
Autopass owned by 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 the companies.
motorists receive discounts if they have Autopass chip and agreements . Most toll in Norway are automatic and can be passed without stopping.
System photographing registration number of the vehicle without a tag and send out invoices later.
Government, to streamline the collection, suggested reducing the number of toll operators to between three and five.
Sources: NPRA / Autopass.no
Preparing justice
in the autumn of 2013, IBM assigned the job of developing the system.
the contract had a value of NOK 190 million of a potential budget of 500 million for the entire project.
A mere three years later can “Grindgut» summarized as follows:
- NPRA has spent around 170 million on an unfinished IT system which they believe is completely useless. Motorists have the bum insurance companies accounted for at least 130 million of this.
- NPRA and IBM steering towards a judicial settlement after the Road Administration raised the contract in July 2015. The parties requires that counterparty covering all expenses, in addition to compensation from each other. Totals are not known.
- From before granting a judgment in the Court of Appeal IT company BT Signaal – which lost the tender procedure against IBM – NOK 27 million from the government. The court determines that NPRA committed “significant errors during the tender procedure”, which would meant that IBM was rejected and the contract given to BT Signaal. The judgment appealed not.
– We are basic disagree that NPRA had legal grounds for terminating the contract, and we are preparing to advance our case in court. We do not want to comment further now, writes Communications Manager of IBM Norway, Otto Backer Solberg, in an e-mail to Aftenposten.
If the state loses the case, it could result in a bill of several hundred million kroner – that motorists in this case must take a large part of.
How will they change the toll-Norway
2012: “Grindgut” project start up and managed by the NPRA / Transport Office, while toll road companies that will finance the development of the new system.
2013 IBM wins tender results, but competitor, BT Signaal, believes they should have had contact and take the matter to court. It declined, 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 expenses, and the project’s steering committee discusses both other options and cancellation of the contract. But the project will continue.
2014: In October delivers a hired consulting company a report that reveals serious deficiencies in the work so far. IBM will continue.
2015 In June reinforces a new consultant report concern at Road Administration that the project is trying to track complete of. The following month, on 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.
Powerful accusations
NPRA raised IBM contract in July 2015 – the parties were then completely on a collision course.
Road Administration believes IBM has not delivered under the agreement, neither on quality, cost, delivery scope or management of the project.
Partenen correspondence concerning cancellation of the agreement marked by strong accusations.
in raising letter argues Road Administration that IBM has tried to hide the delayed project, and that the company has “had a strong focus on positioning itself to obtain improper payment, “come with” obviously incorrect allegations “that Road Administration has changed its order and at the same time come up with” more direct inaccuracies and falsehoods. “
it rejected gloss of the company: According to IBM, there Road Administration that breaks the agreement by continually modify his order. Road Administration is itself to blame for the delays and keeps therefore unlawful in payments, claims IBM.
Deputy NPRA, Jane Bordal, specifies that the agency is “committed to conducting an effective and good toll management so that most of money goes to the road. “
– for your upcoming trial, we can not go into details. We think it is sad that we have come in this situation, but we believe that IBM is not delivered in accordance with the obligations inherent in the contract. We had no choice but to go to the cancellation of the contract, she writes in an e-mail to Aftenposten.
Green light for 225 million in tolls in Bergen
– Used much money to no avail
Norvegfinans is toll companies’ interest group. Chairman Hilde Foss Christensen is little impressed “Grindgut” project.
She notes that it is Parliament decided that the toll companies should pay for the collection system and all other expenses related to the collection.
– But here motorists paid for a project which was managed by the Transport Office, and ended in the ditch. Is it correct that tolls should cover it?
– Either pay motorists, or pay taxpayers. But we are certainly glad this bill, especially when it is for a project we do not get anything out of. It is quite clear.
Q: A government ICT scandal
Parliament Geir Pollestad (Sp) was State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport under the coalition government, which took the initiative to “Grindgut” project .
the implementation, however seated transport Minister Ketil Solvik-Olsen (FRP) which is responsible for.
Pollestad does not hesitate to characterize “Grindgut” as a “government ICT scandal» .
– You have significant costs incurred and it is motorists who get the bill. I’m sure FRP in opposition would have demanded that it should be covered by the state, says Pollestad, adding:
– If, after the legal settlement occurs such a bill for this project, add the blame on the Transport Office and Ministry of Transport. I suppose it is natural that it is financed from the state budget and not through toll collection.
Ministry, led by Minister Ketil Solvik-Olsen (FRP), has received updates approximately every second month in a written status report and subsequent meeting, said Bordal in Road Administration.
State Secretary Reynir Jóhannesson (FRP), which accounts for a holidaymaker Solvik-Olsen, will not say anything about it is motorists who end up with the bill and make it clear that the matter first must be decided by the courts.
– first we have to see if there may be a bill. We will take good care of every tax crown, and not wasting the drivers’ money. It is of course very boring at Road Directorate have such problems in an IT project. The challenge now is that we can not say much about the case, because there is an ongoing conflict between the Road Administration and IBM.
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