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With date of 31st May 2009 SICE has signed a subcontracting agreement for the design, supply and installation of the Back Office System (BOS) of the PATHE and IONIA Odos toll motorways that the concessionaire NEA ODOS S.A. has to update, complete, construct, operate and maintain for 30 years.

The PATHE Odos motorway, 187 km. long (aprox.) with 6 tunnels along the motorway, connects the cities of Athens (at Metamorfossi I/C) with Maliakos (at Skarfia) and include the Schimatari-Chalkida Connecting Branch. This motorway counts with an open toll collection system.

The IONIA Odos motorway, 196 km. long (aprox.) with 10 tunnels along the motorway, connects the cities of Antirrio with Ioanina. This motorway will count with a closed toll collection system.

Both motorways will allow toll payments either through toll collectors (manual), or automatic coin-electromagnetic card machines (semi-automatic) and Electronic Toll Collection (ETC). Each motorway will count with its associated traffic management system (ITS) to control traffic all along their ways in a centralized manner, both inside and outside the tunnels.

The Back Office System that SICE will implement consist in hardware and software to allow, among other functionalities, the registration and handling of toll transaction information, management of customer accounts, to facilitate funds transfer between the concessionaire, tag and credit card Issuers and, Banks, and to provide tools to manage information for managers and Greek Authorities.

The system will count with a Disaster Recovery Site, identical to the main Control Centre, installed in an independent building, designed to minimize the potential for data loss and interruption of operations.

The BOS main functionalities are the following:

• Transaction Consolidation
• Revenue Consolidation
• Income Management
• Client Management
• Company Revenue Consolidation
• Reporting Management
• Toll System List Management
• Internal Services Audit Management
• System Administration Management

The Project includes the supply and installation of the hardware platforms where the Back Office software application will run, both for the Main Control Centre and for the Disaster Recovery Site, with the set of servers, backup units and tape libraries necessary for the proper operation of the system.

This Project consolidates SICE’s capacity and experience in the implementation of Back Office Systems for toll motorways (both single-lane conventional tolling and multi-lane free-flow), as well as SICE’s presence in the Hellenic country, where SICE counts with the local company SICE Hellas.