Prague City Council has decided to cancel a tender to supply cards for the controversial smart card scheme Opencard, now almost exclusively used as a public transport season ticket, due to an insufficient number of bidders. The capital will likely announce a new tender to find an alternative supplier of new chip cards to the nontransparent firm Haguess, but there has also been talk of scrapping the project altogether. The Opencard project has been plagued by massive cost overruns since its inception and by allegations of corruption.
