Longtime local cycling entrepreneur Josh Squire has a sorry tale to tell about the city’s new plan to put thousands of rental bikes on the streets of Chicago.

That’s $9,600 per bike.

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On April 26 Bike Chicago filed a protest. Foremost among its complaints: both the head of the city’s Department of Transportation and the intern who wrote Chicago’s request for proposals had recently worked as consultants for Alta, and the intern is now an Alta employee.

Scales also says the evaluation committee determined that “Bike Chicago’s proposal suggested a lack of appreciation for the resources, both human and equipment, required to handle a bike-sharing system of this size.”

That same day, the LinkedIn description of Pomp’s accomplishments as a CDOT intern changed. Where he’d previously claimed to have “Drafted $20M Chicago Bike Share RFP and financial model; Conducted interviews of bike share coordinators and consultants across the U.S. and developed strategic plan for a successful launch of Chicago Bike Share in 2012,” he now claims only to have “conducted bike sharing research.”