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Oklahoma City council orders RFP cleanup after protests over Zone 4 towing award

Oklahoma City Council · December 3, 2025
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Summary

After months of protests and competing public comments, the City Manager recommended rejecting the current towing/record-service proposals and reissuing a clarified RFP; council directed staff to move quickly and return early next year with a revised solicitation.

The Oklahoma City Council on Dec. 2 directed city staff to revise and reissue a troubled towing and record-service request for proposals covering Zone 4 after formal protests, public comments and council concerns about unclear RFP language.

City Manager Craig Freeman told the council that several formal protest letters and inconsistent bid responses made it “cleaner” to reject the current proposals, correct the RFP language and re-advertise. “There was a protest, a formal protest came in, several other letters that came in, and it was clear that there was a lack of clarity in…

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