When Pango bid for the contract in 2015, they offered just a 1-cent fee to customers for every parking transaction, much less than the other vendors competing for the project. Parkmobile offered 25 cents per transaction, and PassportParking offered 23 cents. The low fees, and the possibility of ad revenue for the PPA, were cited as reasons to award Pango the contract, according to a May 2015 recommendation from Fenerty to the authority's board.