STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Transportation & Infrastructure
AGENDA DATE: September 25, 2024
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):|910|DEPARTMENT: Department of Aviation
EXECUTIVE: Dev Rastogi
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a new seven-year concession contract with D&B Mitchell Group, LLC for food and beverage concessions services at Dallas Love Field Airport, branded as Turco35 - Estimated Revenue: Aviation Fund $197,384.00
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BACKGROUND
On October 20, 2022 ("Contract Effective Date"), a Month-to-Month Concession Agreement was executed with the Primary Term commencing February 1, 2023, by and between D&B Mitchell Group, LLC. ("Concessionaire"), a Texas limited liability company (hereinafter referred to as ("CONCESSIONAIRE"), and the City of Dallas.
Pursuant to the requirements of Administrative Directive 4-05, the Department of Aviation requested and received approval from the City Manager's office to contract with D&B Mitchell Group, LLC. for food and beverage concession services branded as Turco35 in Suite C2449 at Dallas Love Field Airport. An exception to the concession contracts procurement process allows the city manager, with assistance from the initiating department, to procure a concession contract through an informal process, rather than by Request for Bids (RFB) or Request for Proposals (RFP) process, when an RFB or RFP process is determined not to be cost beneficial to the City. D&B Mitchell Group, LLC is the only concessionaire that can best operate the require food and beverage concession Suite C2449 at the airport.
The concessionaire has proved to be an excellent operator beginning in mid-January 2023. Post-COVID recovery progresses but at a significantly higher cost. Wages, hiring costs, merchandise and food costs have all increased, along with the delivery costs, and all aspects of the operations at the airport have increased the costs of those operations. D&B Mitchell Group, LLC. spent $606,2...
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