The Department of General Services intends to award the Master Service Agreement for its Travel Payment System to Citibank, N.A, according to state records.
Four banking institutions submitted proposals for the contract. The contract was put out to bid in October 2015.
The Travel Payment System (TPS), which centralizes travel management services for the California state workforce, is a component of the Statewide Travel Program, which was created in 2008 and whose use is mandated among the state workforce.
The contractor will be responsible for printing and issuing cards, maintaining compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) and Data Security Standards (DSS), generating reports, and providing a Web-based system for travel account management and administration, and transaction collection.
A DGS management memo issued in March 2014 outlined a new travel policy requiring all state agencies to make all travel arrangements through the Statewide Travel Program.
"With recent technological advances, the state can unify all of its air, hotel, car and rail reservations through employee use of Concur Travel and/or the CalTravelStore representatives — both of which are available to state travelers 24 hours a day, seven days a week," the memo said.
