THE Road Transport Department’s online vehicle number plate bidding system (JPJeBid) has raked in more than RM16 million since it was introduced in April.

RTD vehicle licensing division director Mohd Rusdi Mohd Darus said the collection came from bids on 14 number plate series in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Kedah, Penang, Sabah and Johor.

“We are launching the JPJeBid for Kelantan and Pahang and we expect it to be implemented in all the states by the end of November,” he said at a press conference launching the JPJeBid at the Kelantan RTD in Kota Baru today.

At the event, RTD for the first time launched a joint bid number plates for two states, the DDP series for Kelantan and CEE series for Pahang.

Rusdi said the system, offers transparency starting from registration transactions to payments made without anyone intervening.

He said, the bidding for DDP and CEE series would be open for five days from August 30 at 12am until 11.59pm on September 3 and bidding results would be announced on September 4.

“The bidding price is based on categories. The category for the most valuable number is RM20,000, followed by RM3,000 for attractive numbers, RM800 for popular numbers and RM300 for normal numbers.

“Each of these categories will use a minimum bid increase of 5% according to the price of the number. Payments can only be made via local credit or debit cards,” he said.

He said bidders could bid for as many numbers as they want as long as they pay a service fee of RM10 for each bid, but each individual was allowed to bid for a maximum of three registration numbers, while companies were allowed a maximum of five registration numbers.

Successful bidders had only 12 months after receiving the offer letter issued by the state RTD or branch to register the vehicle numbers. – Bernama, August 26, 2019.