Tamara Fountain, the city’s chief operations officer, sent out a email late yesterday afternoon in response to the daily newspaper’s report on the CBRE new fee structure at the Maritime Park: “CBRE issued an RFP on September 23, 2015. The Chair of the CMPA Board of Trustees and the Mayor were not aware of the 4 percent success fee until after the RFP was issued.â€
She said that the CMPA Board of Trustees did not have the Mayor’s or City Council’s approvals to issue an RFP. Fountain wrote, “The CMPA Board of Trustees voted to send the MOU to the City Council for their consideration. The City Council could vote to reject the MOU, renegotiate the terms in the MOU, or enter in the MOU.”
She added, “This is an opportunity to discuss an opportunity.â€
Here are the proposals that were sent to the mayor’s office in January: CMPA memo to City – RFP Presentation. The proposal by the Studers were discussed at its December meeting of the CMPA board. Their withdrawal was reported by the media.
The mayor’s office was given a copy of the RFP on September 23, 2014 – with this note from Ed Spears: On Friday, CBRE released the RFP for the parcels at the Maritime Park. The link below will take you to the RFP. Please share with any interested parties. Thanks – Ed
http://f.tlcollect.com/fr2/314/31612/Community_Maritime_Park_RFP.pdf
The questions remain: Why was Spears “separated” from the city? Why did the mayor not halt the RFP after he discovered the success fee? Why was CMPA board allowed to continue with the discussion of the RFP responses?
And why is everything involving the CMPA allows so confusing?