City Council committee OKs airport parking contract - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The panel voted 3-2 to send a resolution awarding a three-year contract to manage parking operations at the world’zs busiest airport to , which also oversees parking at Chicagko O’Hare International and 60 airports nationwide. If the full city counci approves the resolutionon Monday, the contract would run for thre e years with a two-year renewal optiohn at the city’s discretion. Parking is the airport’s most lucrative revenue Hartsfield-Jackson receives about $85 millio n a year from parkinbg revenue, and the parking management company getsabout $23.4 million in pre-approved operating expenses, plus managemenft fees.
Atlanta Business Chronicle first reportex the forthe contract. Standar competed with four other parking management companiee forthe contract, including , which has held the contractf for most of the past two decades, and -backed ATL Airpark. The selection process was controversial. Airport officials threw out a firstr set of bidslast year, acknowledging that it wasn’t conducte properly, resulting in a second rounrd of bidding. On representatives of several losing bidders complained to the committee that StandardsParking Corp.
received the highest score fromthe airport’a evaluation team even though the proposed operating budgeft it submitted was highert than some of the other “There ought to be, from this council, a demane for a greater understanding of how these criteriaq were applied,” said Kevin Ross, representing Parkinfg Company of America. But airport General Manager Ben DeCostwa said the selection committee went beyond financial numbersw to consider such factors aseach bidder’s expertisre and quality.
When taking the full rangwe of qualificationsinto account, he said Standard receivedd the highest score by a wide The bidding process still left two committee members dissatisfied enougyh to attempt to delayy moving forward with the contract. But a narrows majority of the panel voted to send the resolution to thefull