A recent decision by Austin, Texas, transit agency Capital Metro to award a contract to Cubic Transportation Systems for a new fare system is a big win for Cubic’s Umo platform, but the award is raising some questions among industry vendors over the way CapMetro has conducted the procurement, Mobility Payments has learned.
CapMetro officials, although they are believed to have heard presentations from a total of five fare-system vendors (see below), have yet to explain why they decided against holding a full procurement