​The Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority (PRHTA) is issuing this Request for Proposals (“RFP”) to solicit proposals from Qualified Roadside Tolling System Providers and Operators for completing the migration of Channelized Toll Plazas to Free-flow Gantries at all the PRHTA’s tolled highways.  These are: PR-20, Guaynabo; PR-52, San Juan – Ponce; PR-53, Fajardo – Yabucoa and Guayama – Salinas; and PR-66, Carolina – Río Grande.

The scope of the resulting contract shall include the design, construction, testing, deployment, migration, go-live, and Operation and Maintenance of at least fifteen (15) Free-flow Gantries covering one direction or both directions of travel. The delivery process during the contract is grouped into two (2) Units.  The first one shall consist of seven (7) Tolling Areas and the second one of eight (8) Tolling Areas. Note that PRHTA might require additional work detailed in the RFP documents. 

The PRHTA expects that the selected Provider shall include in his team experienced highway design engineer(s) with knowledge in the design and build of high-quality Free-flow Gantries in accordance with the Design Criteria and the requirements of the current AASHTO Highway and Bridges Design Manuals and the PRHTA’s Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction.  Since the construction will be in existing high-speed roadways, the design shall also require adequate maintenance of traffic plans in accordance with the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) latest version and criteria established in the RFP documents.  

Proposers shall submit their Proposals at the Board of Awards Office on the Roberto Sánchez Vilella Government Center (Minillas) South Building, Eleventh Floor, De Diego Avenue, Stop 22, Santurce, Puerto Rico on or before 2:00 PM of January 13, 2022.  Said proposals will be publicly opened in a virtual meeting (via Cisco Webex Meetings) on January 14, 2022, at 10:00 AM. An invitation to access this meeting will be sent to those proposers who submitted proposals. 

A non-mandatory virtual (Webex) Pre-Qualifications Delivery Conference will be held at 10:00 AM on November 12, 2021.  An invitation to access the meeting will be sent to those proposers that have been registered at the Board of Awards Office. Although non-mandatory, attendance to this meeting is highly recommendable.  

Proposal documents and forms, and all necessary information may be obtained at the office of the Board of Awards of the Authority (the Board) located on the Eleventh floor, South Building, Roberto Sánchez Vilella Government Center (formerly Minillas), phone number (787)721-8787 extensions 51130 or 51134, from October 22, 2021, by filing a request for registering in this process to the following e-mail address: juntasubastas@dtop.pr.gov, until two (2) working days prior to the proposal due date.  The Board will send a registration form to the Proposer, and it shall be completed and send by e-mail to the Board.  These documents will be available only in digital format to be downloaded from a link that will be sent by e-mail after all the information in the registration form is validated.​