City of Biel terminates contract with poster company
The city of Biel no longer wants to routinely extend the contract with Allgemeine Plakatgesellschaft APG by one year every year. It has terminated the contract for billposting on public land at the end of 2016 and is planning a new award procedure.
Biel's finance director Silvia Steidle said on Wednesday in response to an inquiry that the city of Biel is also hoping to generate additional revenue through this step. She thus supplemented a communication from the municipal council. The reallocation of the billposting contract is also an opportunity for the city to think about the regulation of cultural and political posters. According to Steidle, the contract between the city of Biel and APG has been in place since 1997 and expires at the end of 2016. The city of Lucerne also recently decided to re-award the poster contract in 2016 and put it out to tender. The city of Bern had already done the same in 2009 - but then awarded the contract to APG again. This company prevailed over its competitor Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO). (SDA)
