The 2023 intelligent traffic lights contracting at the National Institute of Transport and Transit (Intrant) continues to make headlines as leading media share details following the confirmation of the Procurement Agency that there were irregularities in the RD$1.3 billion contract. The contract was initially protested by leading suppliers of the technology that said the contract was rigged in favor of the beneficiaries, as reported in Acento.
The director of Intrant, Hugo Beras insists there was transparency and calls for the continuing of the installation of the devices. Reports are that the installation of the devices is well advanced. The contract was signed in March 2023.
Over the weekend, Diario Libre published the information that Pedro Padovani Baez who on his Linkedin page reported he had four years of experience as general coordinator of the Intrant Traffic Control Center (from August 2019 to July 2022), making RD$70,000 a month, had left the entity shortly before the forming of the company that would win the billion peso contract.
Padovani and Jorg Brinkmeyer are listed as the owners of Transcore Latam that obtained the contract to install smart traffic technology in Greater Santo Domingo.
The contract for RD$1,317,350,997 calls for the installation of 335 new intelligent traffic light regulators and the same amount of hardware to be installed in buses and special vehicles. In addition to some 1,340 vehicle detection cameras and some 3,000 traffic lights.
Diario Libre reports that Padovani had privileged access to information at the Intrant before joining the new company, Transcore Latam. Diario Libre reports that the partners of Transcore Latam are Transcore LTE, LLC represented by Jorg Brnkmeyer and SIC Transporte LLC, represented by Padovani Baez, who has the majority of the shares.
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7 November 2023