Yesterday, the Procurement Department made a proposal to award the regulated parking service on public roads to the company Estacionamientos y Servicios SAU, for a bid of €575,000. There is now a 15-day period during which the other two companies that submitted bids can appeal. If they do not do so, the award will be considered final.
The tender process for the concession of regulated parking services in Calpe began last February, following the drafting and approval of the specifications. Interested companies were able to submit their bids until March. However, when the Municipal Procurement Department made its award proposal, one of the companies lodged an appeal, which delayed the administrative procedure and the start of the service.
At the end of June, the Administrative Court of Contract Appeals ruled in favour of the company that appealed the award and ordered the procedure to be reversed so that the contracting committee could request the bidder to justify the abnormality of its bid and the viability of its proposal. Once this procedure has been completed, the award proposal has been reformulated and, if no appeals are lodged within 15 days, the service will be considered definitively awarded.
One of the most notable aspects of the new contract is the reduction in the blue zone tariff for residents and traders, which is being cut by almost 50%. In the orange zone (beach area), the reduction for these groups is 22%. Thus, if until now the hourly rate in the blue zone for residents was €0.40, it will now cost €0.25, while in the orange zone it will drop from €0.45 to €0.35 per hour. On the other hand, the general rate will increase: in the blue zone it will go from £0.85 to £1.10 per hour, and in the orange zone from £0.95 to £1.45 per hour.
This change in rates is intended to benefit residents of the municipality by reducing the cost of parking in regulated parking areas.
The timetables are also being modified: until now, the maximum time allowed was two hours in the blue zone and three hours in the orange zone. With the new regulations, these limits are being extended to three and six hours, respectively.
Other changes include the integration of the green zone into the blue zone, thus eliminating the green zone, which only operated in the morning, and the elimination of the mixed orange zone. The blue zone will now have 920 spaces and the orange zone 1,135.
In addition, the specifications establish as a mandatory investment the replacement of parking meters that do not allow payment by credit card. The concessionaire must also provide the service with two tow trucks. The annual fee proposed in the specifications is €350,000 plus VAT, and the company proposed for the contract has offered a fee of €575,000.