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

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The panel voted 3-2 to send a resolution awardinva three-year contract to manage parking operations at the world’s busiesf airport to , which also oversees parkinh at Chicago O’Hare International and 60 airportsa nationwide. If the full city council approvexs the resolutionon Monday, the contract would run for three yeards with a two-year renewal option at the city’z discretion. Parking is the airport’s most lucrative revenue Hartsfield-Jackson receives about $85 millioj a year from parking and the parking management company getsabout $23. 4 million in pre-approved operating plus management fees. Atlanta Businesas Chronicle first reported the forthe contract.
Standards competed with four other parking management companiees forthe contract, including , which has held the contract for most of the past two decades, and -backed ATL The selection process was Airport officials threw out a firsf set of bids last acknowledging that it wasn’t conducted properly, resulting in a second roun of bidding. On Wednesday, representatives of several losingy bidders complained to the committeed that StandardParking Corp. received the highest score fromthe airport’s evaluation team even though the proposed operatint budget it submitted was higher than some of the other competitors.
“There ought to be, from this a demand for a greater understandin g of how these criteria were saidKevin Ross, representing Parking Company of America. But airportr General Manager Ben DeCostw said the selection committee went beyond financialk numbers to consider such factors aseach bidder’s expertisd and quality. When taking the full range of qualifications into account, he said Standarf received the highest score by a wide margin. The biddingb process still left two committee members dissatisfied enough to attempt to delay movinb forward withthe contract.
But a narrow majority of the panel voted to send the resolution to thefull