The District will spend $20 million a year to capture speeders and red-light runners on camera and then process the tickets under multiple contracts approved in 2006.
ACS State and Local Solutions won the most recent award, a $12.5 million contract with two base years and three one-year options, to provide ticket processing services for the Department of Motor Vehicles. The award was approved by the D.C. Council last week.
In July, the council ratified a multiyear deal with American Traffic Solution Inc., at $7.1 million annually over two years with three option years, to provide traffic safety enforcement for the Metropolitan Police Department.
Cameras and tickets will amount to $19.6 million.
“The provision of these services under the proposed multi-year contract is critical to maintain public safety of drivers and pedestrians in the District of Columbia,” according to the resolution adopted in July.
In October, ACS won another $20 million, the total over five years, to manage and administer the city’s parking meter program.
Aggressive speeding in enforcement zones, as well as red-light running at intersections where cameras are installed, is down significantly.
But with 49 red-light cameras and 22 radar cameras, the District has had no problem recouping its cash, leading critics to charge the program is more about revenue than safety.
The District collected $2.2 million in fines in November from its radar cameras, and a total of $28.8 million in 2006.
The MPD has raking in nearly $40 million from its red-light cameras since the program was launched in 1999.
