Oystercard Gets New Contract, But Same Suppliers
Quote:
"Over the summer, the London travelcard ticketing system ¡X called Oyster ¡X fell over twice, forcing the transport authority to offer free travel to the six million Londoners using the system. After that, it cut its contract with the supplier of the system, a consortium called TranSys. But now, Transport for London has signed a new contract to replace the TranSys one ¡X with the same two companies that made up the TranSys consortium. Sure, that should fix everything." http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/19/189246 -- jhk |
Oystercard Gets New Contract, But Same Suppliers
Jarle H Knudsen wrote:
Quote: "Over the summer, the London travelcard ticketing system — called Oyster — fell over twice, forcing the transport authority to offer free travel to the six million Londoners using the system. After that, it cut its contract with the supplier of the system, a consortium called TranSys. But now, Transport for London has signed a new contract to replace the TranSys one — with the same two companies that made up the TranSys consortium. Sure, that should fix everything." http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/19/189246 It would help if you quoted from the TfL press release* rather than a random blog. The new contract is with Cubic and EDS, two of the FOUR companies that make up Transys. (The others are Fujitsu Services, formerly ICL, and WS Atkins.) TfL have gained ownership of the Oyster brand from Transys, say they have achieved "better value for money", and I suspect are going to take a bigger role in managing the work of Cubic and EDS. Awarding the contract to an entirely different organisation, and probably losing the Oyster name in the process, would have been a riskier course of action IMHO. * http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi...tre/10442.aspx -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
Oystercard Gets New Contract, But Same Suppliers
On 20 Nov, 20:57, "Richard J." wrote:
It would help if you quoted from the TfL press release* rather than a random blog. Also TfL specifically said that the cancellation wasn't related to the outages. U |
Oystercard Gets New Contract, But Same Suppliers
On Nov 20, 9:26 pm, Mr Thant
wrote: On 20 Nov, 20:57, "Richard J." wrote: It would help if you quoted from the TfL press release* rather than a random blog. Also TfL specifically said that the cancellation wasn't related to the outages. Yeah , right. Pure coincidence I'm sure. B2003 |
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