A Chicago Transit Board committee is set to vote on a $41 million contract on Friday that could overhaul the agency’s bus fare box system for the next 20 years, but a bidder and some alderpersons are calling into question the bidding process that they say potentially gave some companies an unfair advantage.
A request for proposals was first issued as a joint procurement between CTA and suburban bus system Pace that called for the replacement of both agencies’ bus fare box systems.
