Guadalajara, Jalisco. With an investment of between 25 and 30 million dollars, the US company Worldwide Environmental Group operates the project Responsible Verification in the state, whose model plans to replicate four other entities in the country, for which it plans to increase “two or three times more” that capital in the coming years.
The CEO of the California-based company, Michael Delaney, told El Economista that despite the long history that Mexico has in verification programs, “it already has to implement a more advanced program for the year 2023 and beyond; Now is the time to modernize your system vehicle verification”.
Although he did not reveal the entities interested in implementing the system, he announced that among them is Lower Californiaand other states in the north and northwest of the country.
He explained that unlike other programs, the Jalisco It is a model where the private initiative invests and not the state government.
“The vehicle verification program in Jalisco is a franchise-type model, in which different companies are responsible for operating the responsible verification centers and we are the company responsible for supplying the entire technological package that is necessary to carry out the vehicle verification and to guarantee the security and traceability of each of the verifications”, explained Delaney.
The technology company is also responsible for supplying the state government with the technology to monitor in real time all the processes of the program, of each vehicle and in each verification center, with which acts of corruption are inhibited.
“We make the investment in the technology and supply it at no cost to the operators, and the way in which we recover our investment is through a fixed payment for each verification carried out,” said the company’s CEO.
In the case of Jalisco, each motorist must pay 500 pesos for the annual verification. From this, the technology firm receives a payment of 99 pesos per verified vehicle and after the program was interrupted by the pandemic, the concession term for the company was extended from 15 to 19 years.
Unlike other verification programs, said the CEO of Worldwide, in this one the holograms that generated a cost to the treasury are eliminated and they are replaced by stickers with technology RFID (radio frequency identification) that prevent counterfeiting.
“We are here to invest; we have not sold anything, we are not here to sell, we are here to invest in Mexico and help state governments to implement vehicle verification programs at another level”, he referred.
