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Controller urges tighter rules after preliminary review of airport contract awards
Summary
The City Controller27s office presented a preliminary Jan. 11 assessment saying airport concession awards were largely competitive but flagged improper commissioner-bidder contacts and recommended strengthening statements of incompatible activity, training, codification of communication prohibitions, and better central tracking of contract-related disclosures.
The San Francisco Controller27s office told the Ethics Commission on Monday that, while most airport concession leases between 2015 and 2020 were awarded through competitive solicitations, investigators found instances in which an airport commissioner allegedly contacted a potential bidder and did not report the contact, a practice that undercuts procurement safeguards.
The controller27s preliminary assessment, presented by Mark De La Rosa and other office staff, summarized federal allegations involving an attempt to influence airport lease awards and detailed five sets of recommendations: require boards and commissions to revise policies limiting members27 involvement in procurement; provide annual SIA (Statement of…
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