ITSO Services Limited award HOPS
ITSO Services Limited (ISL) has awarded Applied Card Technologies Limited (ACT) the contract for the ITSO English Concessionary Travel Scheme holding HOPS (AMS) managed service. The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme is a government project where from April 2008, all those people 60 plus and the disabled will receive free off-peak travel on local bus services throughout England.
The ACT ISL HOPS is already live and operational and will support up to 255 Transport Concessionary Authorities (TCA's) and some 50 million transactions are expected in the first few months of 2008.
Gary Watts, Director ACT; ‘We are delighted to have been selected to deliver this aspect of the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS). The ACT HOPS (AMS) is a crucial part of the ENCTS project and I'm pleased to see that all is live and operational for ITSO services Limited.'
Helen Mitchell, Head of Business Development ITSO Services Limited; ‘We selected ACT due to their proven ITSO experience in deploying large transaction volume systems. The live ISL HOPS service demonstrates positive progression towards the deployment of ENCTS cards in 2008. Indeed, ACT have already profiled over 1,000 ISAMS to enable ENCTS card production to take place.'