TóPARK is contracting with OPG-Parking

TóPARK announced a tender in the summer of 2009, the aim of which was to select a strategic partner responsible for the total technical equipment and operation as the tenant of the parking lots belonging to the offices, rental apartments and service units to be built in the first phase of the development. The winner of the tender is the German OPG-Parking GmbH that has thereby won the opportunity of an investment of over 250,000 Euros.

The tender announced with the cooperation of the Hungarian Parking Association raised strong interest among parking service providers since the company winning the right to operate in TóPARK may be part of the largest domestic development and may present its activity here as a reference location.

TóPARK declared in the call for bids that it intended to contract with a partner that applies the highest standard, state-of-the-art technological solutions and technical equipment, furthermore, is able to upgrade this service standard continuously and to fulfill additional needs as the project expands.

Bids were received from six companies to the call, including the largest domestic and international companies. Under the call for bids, the task is the full operation of the parking house with 236 parking places and the surface parking lot with 512 parking places – among them open and closed ones – to be built during the first phase of the development.

The Germany based OPG-Parking GmbH submitted the highest standard and most favorable bid, as a result of which it could enter into contract with the investor of TóPARK office park in October 2009. Under the agreement OPG-Parking GmbH shall fulfill the assignment in cooperation with APCOA Austria.

The corporate group has over forty years of professional experience. Among its reference works it presented several projects implemented in large towns including public parking lots, parking houses, P&R facilities and the parking lots of airports and shopping centers. This extremely wide portfolio allows OPG-Parking to offer a unique concept in case of this investment as well. At the same time, with this assignment the company has won its first contract in Hungary as well.

From a technological perspective OPG-Parking GmbH is Europe’s market leader service provider and accordingly – in compliance with the requirements of TóPARK – it will install a state-of-the-art, world class hardware and software system in the parking facility to be built here. The contract includes the establishment of control equipment and barriers and the installation of payment machines, parking ticket machines and the system controlling parking traffic. The machines will be capable of reading traditional paper based cards with magnetic stripes, furthermore, they will allow credit card payment as well and in response to the special need, they will be able to handle TóPARK Pass, the city center’s internal, multi-functional card. A subscriber system and prepaid card service will also be available as well as the use of protected areas established according to unique needs with special entry systems. The occupancy of the parking house and the surface parking lot will be indicated by a traffic control system that helps orientating arriving traffic to empty spaces. In addition, the system also has a license plate recognition function that is comfortable for motorists with subscriptions and is also remarkable from a security perspective. 

The two managing directors of OPG-Parking, Karl-Heinz Ellinghaus and Ingo Hoppe pointed out that this assignment was determining, moreover, of governing significance with regard to the company’s development in the Eastern European region. “We are delighted that we can invest the total technological knowledge and skill basis of our corporate group in the implementation of this project and at the same time we also have the opportunity to continue our successful cooperation with DESIGNA Hungaria. In the past 15 years OPG-Parking played a key role in various developments of the Kiel based DESIGNA Verkehrsleittechnik GmbH, which will considerably contribute to creating an exemplary solution for all special client needs in this outstanding, high standard facility as well” – said the managing directors.

“The innovative power inherent in the development has extremely impressed us. In our opinion the project’s requirements set towards infrastructure and the conceptual approach of various use represent such a governing development, owing to which this whole investment can be considered exemplary not only with regard to Hungary but also other large European towns. During our cooperation with TóPARK so far the constructive and target oriented attitude of the concerned colleagues has particularly impressed us as they have passed obstacles easily and facilitated the process all through the – often – bumpy road to the final solution. Unfortunately, this is not unambiguous in case of investments of such a magnitude these days. It is our honor to be awarded with the trust of TóPARK and to be assigned with the implementation of this project that is not common for us” – they added.

OPG-Parking GmbH has not only contracted with TóPARK as a service provider but also as a tenant, thus the number of the office park’s tenants has also increased further.

In the last years TóPARK won several domestic and international professional acknowledgements; the latest being the European championship title in the award system of CNBC Arabiya International Property Awards, thus it is to its great pleasure to contract with a partner that, in addition to impressive professional references, can also present renowned trade acknowledgements.