New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 16 - TRANSPORTATION
Chapter 85 - CONTRACTING OUT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 16:85-1.1 - Purpose

(a) New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ TRANSIT) was established by the New Jersey Public Transportation Act of 1979, N.J.S.A. 27:25-1 et seq., as an instrumentality of the State to establish and provide for the operation and improvement of a coherent public transportation system in the most efficient and effective manner. One of the ways by which NJ TRANSIT fulfills this responsibility is by reviewing opportunities to contract out its regular route bus services. In April 1986, the NJ TRANSIT Board of Directors adopted a contracting out policy to govern how the bus services provided by NJ TRANSIT might be contracted out in order to reduce the cost of providing such services.

(b) The Board of Directors of NJ TRANSIT adopted its first contracting policies and procedures rules in 1993. This policy also established that all new NJ TRANSIT regular route bus service, and all redefined NJ TRANSIT routes resulting from a major restructuring of service, could be contracted out. Since 1986, NJ TRANSIT has awarded numerous contracts for the provision of regular route service to private bus carriers or determined that such services would be operated by NJ TRANSIT in accordance with the procedures set forth in this chapter. The rules constitute NJ transit's policy statement and procedures concerning contracting for the operation of regular route bus service. They are intended to govern whenever NJ TRANSIT performs a competitive procurement process seeking proposals for the operation of regular route bus services.