The Midlands has offered up a tender for a transport authority smart card system, with a potential value of more than £4.2 million.

The transport smart card system would be similar to the London Oster card scheme, providing alternative payment methods for transport services while providing valuable data allowing for analytics capabilities.

The tender process announced by the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive known as Centro, which represents the seven Metropolitan District Councils of the West Midlands, has placed the smart card tender as a framework contract, composed of six lots.

The lots will include the provision of backend systems, database services, card production and customer support.

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