Yet Again, Love Field Concessions Proposals Deadline Extended Due to Many Questions

• City so accustomed to giving contracts they do not have a clue how to bid a concessions contract.They really gave 27% to present vendors and the opportunity to also bid on remaining part.Then they told bidders they would use  lottery system to pick winners.How the hell do you bid and use lottery system. They need to ask DFW staff for help.

• Willis..... I hear some new customers calling you....   looks like it's time to roll out JBJ Marketing! http://j-bjmarketing.com/index.php?id=19 Soon you can add Love Field Concession Program to your many successes: - Parkland Hospital construction contract - Dallas Convention Center hotel construction contract - City of Dallas parking management contract - City of Dallas red light enforcement camera contract - DFW Airport Terminal upgrade construction contract - miscellaneous DART projects - 2006 City of Dallas bond issue election - Convention Center hotel election - Trinity River toll road election - DISD bond issue election

• To your point, the City seeks to present a process that provides for diversity, etc., however, the process developed will only allow for selection of those individuals with political ties to the council. 

• As a Family our main goal is to get beyond the TSA check point as fast as we  with the least amount of Hassle. I will be Darned if we going to stop shop browse or other wise add any item  to the load we going to have deal with as we negotiate ( big word for me ) a check point .  

• Sounds like, in addition to being a 100% ACDBE, the successful bidder needs to hire the right political consultant and have the support of the appropriate political gate-keepers. Sleazy stuff.

• Good catch. Thanks.

• See the City's answers to questions 13, 14 & 15. "Even though a respondent is a certified ACDBE, the City will consider other factors in the evaluation of the respondent’s ACDBE participation plan including, but not limited to, making opportunities  available to other minority firms." This is where the City get's the ability to turn this into another "soft corruption fest," just like retail concessions at DFW Airport.  Notice they  refuse to be pinned down as to how the 15 points associated with the minority contracting criteria will be awarded.  Of course they don't.  They can't come right out and say they will be awarding points based on getting the green light from people like Willis Johnson, Brenda Reyes, Adelfa Callejo, Sen. Royce West, the Garcias, the Medranos, etc. (if indeed, that is what they intend to do). If the City of Dallas is to follow the example of DFW Airport (which seems logical, since Dallas controls most of the seats on the DFW Airport Board), the City will use the minority contracting program as a financial tool for rewarding cronies, rather than encouraging legitimate minority entrepreneurship. One can tell that prospective respondents are already smelling a skunk, and that's why they're asking the questions. (and the smell of the skunk is confirmed in the City's refusal to answer the questions--- they refuse to say how the minority participation component will be scored, which wouldn't be a hard question to answer if they were going to run an honest process. For a refresher course on what is happening, I recommend (once again) the excellent piece authored by Ann Zimmerman (now at the Wall Street Journal) that ran in this very paper several years ago: http://www.dallasobserver.com/1998-05-28/news/is-this-any-way-to-run-an-airport/

• Not to beat a dead horse here, but this is an entirely predictable and avoidable clusterf*&k--- another product of Leppert's political opportunism. Simply put, the City should have accepted the consultant's initial recommendation-- split the concessions into two master packages, then put each both out to bid. It's like the City of Dallas is completely incapable of doing ANYTHING in an honest, straightforward, and transparent manner.

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