Bulgarians to Get on Public Transport with E-tickets

"Deputy Mayor Stoilov said he did not know the reasons for organizing such a contest."

These clowns don't know anything! What the hell are they doing?

It took more than I have expected for Sofia's mayor and his advisors to realize that this is the only way to rervive the Public Transportation revenue. Little more investment and better management in the beginning could have solved the problem long ago, not setting the dogs (ticket inspectors) onto the people. However, it is promising to hear that this will be implemented until July.
Just not to be expected this adaptation process will go without social cataclysms - confused senior citizens, smart gratis-travelers, mean ticket inspectors, irritated bus drivers.
Hopefully an Internet option will be available for this service too...

"It emerged however a second competition is currently held to determine the executive company.

Deputy Mayor Stoilov said he did not know the reasons for organizing such a contest."

Could it be this deputy mayor already handed out the deal (under the table) to a related company? There is BIG money involved in this kind of projects. The company who made the system for the registration of children in kindergartens (recently in Sofia introduced) cashed 380K for that. Downside: it proved to be a crappy system that crashed very fast as it could not handle the load.