The case is updated.
Today is delivered and managed the City Bike system by Clear Channel in agreement with Trondheim municipality. The contract runs out during 2017, and it is therefore of Trondheim, NPRA and South Trøndelag county requesting offer a new solution.
– We ask for offer triple the current arrangement, to 60 stations and 500 bicycles in 2018. in the coming years then desired capacity has increased to around 750 bikes, says project manager for advertising-funded street furniture in Trondheim, Annie Karen Søreng.
Bicycle strategy to Trondheim means that one should expand city Bike system to cover a larger part of the city. Today there are 20 bike racks with 150 city bikes in the city.
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Advertising-funded street furniture
the announcement consists of contract for the provision, operation and maintenance of street furniture like bus shelters, street toilets and city bikes in Trondheim. In addition there is a subcontract for shelters in Malvik and Stjørdal.
The contract period will last from 13 to 15 years, equal to the current contract with Clear Channel that delivers and manages street furniture today. In this way it is ensured a stable and good deal for the public, explaining Søreng.
– The value of 300 million are estimated by what the advertising market has the capacity to finance. It has been decided politically on both the municipal and county levels that these street furniture will be financed by advertising, says the project manager.
The competition was laid out in early July, with tender deadline of 20 October. Tender Evaluation and negotiations will then continue until the summer of 2017, before the vendor is selected.
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– Will post tender assignment
Axel E. Bentsen is CEO of Urban Infrastructure Partner, a company that installs and operates Citybike solutions in Oslo and Bærum today. This allows those who partner with Clear Channel, which has formally contract with the municipality.
– We can clearly see that the new bikes, better availability through a good app, better availability of customer service and the like have proven effective in Oslo . We are convinced that we can achieve the equivalent in Trondheim., He said.
Bentsen believes tender paperwork adds up to a fairly large and ambitious increase in the scope of the City Bike system in Trondheim. A natural part of tender papers will be a boost in functionality.
– Without anticipating the course of events too much I can say that we clearly want to post a tender responses for Trondheim in any constellation, he said.
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Will be more user
the municipality wants new technological solutions for lending citybikes welcome. After the cash payment with coins were replaced with registered bike short is number Disappearances and battered bicycles virtually nonexistent.
– We want an even more user-friendly system with more opportunities. This could be for instance app-based solutions that you can use your credit card, and that there may be opportunity for short term rental, says project Søreng. It also emphasizes that the bikes are easy to use.
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New record last year
During the city bike season in 2015 was slightly higher than the 27 000 outlets of bicycles from the various stands in Trondheim. That each city bike was used about 180 times during the season, which lasts from April to November.
– Bysykkel use in 2015 was a new record since 2014 was 26,093 outlets. In 2013 there were 21,588 outlets. At another increase from 12 to 20 racks made its says Søreng.
The number of subscribers was 1,040 last year, compared with 961 in 2014.
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