Lambeth council has published a tender for the supply, implementation, operation and support of a mobile telephone parking payment system, worth up to £30.5m.
According to a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union, the three year deal will cover online parking software and other “innovative” applications. The chosen supplier will be expected to support and manage a cash payment option available through local outlets for members of the public wishing to pay for parking spaces.
“The service provider will be required to ensure customers can set up a parking session in a variety of ways to include payment by SMS, touchtone, mobile and web,” it says.
A website service and call centre operation will also be required to support the service and the service provider must ensure their system integrates, if necessary, with the current parking systems used by each contracting organisation.
The council also expects the chosen supplier to allocate unique pay by phone location references to all parking bays and to supply and install signage about the system in relevant locations.