Parking Services, Pay-by-Connected Device

The City of St. Petersburg is soliciting proposals from qualified firms to provide Pay-by-Connected Device for on-street and off-street paid parking to the general public of the city of St. Petersburg ("City").

The City desires a hosted Software as a Services (SaaS) solution where the Contractor shall provide all equipment, labor, facilities, tools, software applications, secure internet access website for consumers, hosting services, credit card payment processing, and customer instructional signage/stickers for provision of pay by connected device services.

Additionally, Contractor shall provide to the City training on the use of its software, any electronic mechanism by which payments can be verified and enforced, technical support services and marketing of the program to potential pay by connected device consumers.

The city has utilized a pay by cell and smart phone app for the past 10 years and plans on continuing to offer a pay by connected device option as an alternative to paying for parking with coins. The pay by connected device option allows a motorist who does not have change for the meter to initially pay for, and/or increase parking time with a phone and a credit card or other alternate payment. Registered customers must receive a call or text message at least 15 minutes prior to when their time is about to expire.

This program includes approximately 1,850 on-street metered spaces in the downtown area of St. Petersburg and may be expanded to additional on or off-street spaces at the City's discretion.