Upcoming Events:
January 2: We're BACK! We are having chapter meetings on the winter schedule (1st Saturday at 6 pm). Hope to see you there!
February 6: Chapter Meeting 6 pm (Campbell Hill Rec Room, winter schedule)
ABATE OF PENNSYLVANIA Legislative Update
PAMSP program update Jan 2, 2021 (by Kevin Snyder, Blair member and Assistant State Coordinator)
There is a lot of confusion as to the state of the PAMSP today.
The program had been running on a very limited basis for the end of 2020.
Contracts were awarded for 2021 to five contractors, for a total (we think) of about forty sites. I say "we think" because the bid awards have not been posted to the PA Treasury website where they are supposed to be.
So essentially PennDOT becomes the program administrator and the contractors are limited to running individual sites. No one knows how this is going to work out. We're not real optimistic.
Also, the contract awards have been challenged by one of the contractors. We don't know who has filed the challenge but the impact is that the 2020 contracts have been extended into early 2021. To say this is a clusterf**k would be a giant understatement. No one knows what the basis for or the outcome of the challenge will be like, so it is impossible to predict what the PAMSP is actually going to look like for 2021.
Stay tuned.
PAMSP program update Jan 2, 2021 (by Kevin Snyder, Blair member and Assistant State Coordinator)
There is a lot of confusion as to the state of the PAMSP today.
The program had been running on a very limited basis for the end of 2020.
Contracts were awarded for 2021 to five contractors, for a total (we think) of about forty sites. I say "we think" because the bid awards have not been posted to the PA Treasury website where they are supposed to be.
So essentially PennDOT becomes the program administrator and the contractors are limited to running individual sites. No one knows how this is going to work out. We're not real optimistic.
Also, the contract awards have been challenged by one of the contractors. We don't know who has filed the challenge but the impact is that the 2020 contracts have been extended into early 2021. To say this is a clusterf**k would be a giant understatement. No one knows what the basis for or the outcome of the challenge will be like, so it is impossible to predict what the PAMSP is actually going to look like for 2021.
Stay tuned.
