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

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The panel voted 3-2 to send a resolutionb awardinga three-year contract to manage parkingh operations at the world’s busiest airport to , which also oversees parking at Chicago O’Hare International and 60 airporte nationwide. If the full city council approves the resolution on the contract would run for three yearsw witha two-year renewal option at the city’xs discretion. Parking is the airport’s most lucrative revenue source. Hartsfield-Jackson receives abour $85 million a year from parking revenue, and the parking managementt company getsabout $23.4 million in pre-approved operating plus management fees.
Atlanta Business Chronicle first reportefd the for the Standard competed with four other parking management companies forthe contract, includinyg , which has held the contractf for most of the past two and -backed ATL Airpark. The selectioj process was controversial. Airport officials threw out a firs set of bids last acknowledging thatit wasn’t conducted properly, resulting in a seconr round of bidding. On Wednesday, representatives of severap losing bidders complained to the committee that StandardParkingt Corp. received the highest score fromthe airport’x evaluation team even though the proposed operating budget it submitted was higher than some of the othedr competitors.
“There ought to be, from this council, a demand for a greatert understanding of how these criteria were saidKevin Ross, representing Parking Company of America. But airporty General Manager Ben DeCosta said the selectiojn committee went beyond financial numbers to consider such factors aseach bidder’sw expertise and quality. When takingg the full range of qualifications into he said Standard received the highes score by awide margin. The biddingf process still left two committee memberzs dissatisfied enough to attempt to dela moving forward with the But a narrow majority of the panel voted to send the resolutio to thefull council.