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Council hears appeal of school speed camera procurement; vote on award tabled
Summary
An applicant challenged the city’s ranking of Vera Mobility for a school‑zone speed camera contract. After hours of testimony from procurement staff, vendor representatives and traffic operations staff, councilmembers split and tabled a final decision to allow additional review.
The Orlando City Council on July 14 considered a formal appeal from Red Speed Florida LLC challenging the city procurement committee’s decision to rank Vera Mobility (doing business as American Traffic Solutions/Vera Mobility Corporation) first in a solicitation to install and operate automated speed enforcement at 26 school‑zone approaches.
Mitch Davis of the city attorney’s office summarized the procurement process for council, saying the solicitation set a point formula that weighted price and other technical categories and that the scoring panel had delayed final scoring while procurement sought clarifying financial and affiliation documents from Red Speed. Davis told the council, “staff recommends that the council deny the appeal and award the contract to American…
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