California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

This report documents the Bronco Express EDAPTS System procurement process that follows the V-Model. The V-model process led the research team to have a clear understanding of expectations of what the procured system needed to do. It demonstrated a practical procurement and bidding methodology for small/medium transit agencies to acquire their own unique EDAPTS solutions.

The procurement was conducted in two phases: 1) the pre-procurement evaluation and definition processes and 2) the Request for Proposal (RFP) process. In the pre-procurement process, the EDAPTS Operations Guidelines that described the most valued system characteristics through the use of scored operational scenarios was developed. The guidelines helped the research team identify the high-priority operational needs and wants that were eventually incorporated in the RFP document.

The RFP process involved the RFP document development and the selection of a winning contractor. The RFP document development incorporated findings from the pre-procurement process. The selection of the winning contractor was a systematic, unbiased process based on the criteria pre-established in the RFP document.