CITY OF SAN ANTONIO
AVIATION DEPARTMENT
INTERDEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE
TO: Erik Walsh, City Manager
FROM: Russell J. Handy, Director, Aviation Department
COPIES: Audit and Accountability Committee; Ben Gorzell, Chief Financial Officer; Kevin Barthold, City Auditor; Carlos Contreras, Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT: Post-Solicitation Briefing for Contracted Security Services
DATE: April 16, 2019
The Aviation Department will present a post-solicitation briefing for the selection of a qualified respondent to provide contracted security services. This item is presented to the Audit and Accountability Committee for review prior to full City Council consideration.
The San Antonio International Airport requires a firm to provide secured area access management and monitoring services in order to meet federal regulations and counter evolving threats. The selected firm will work with the Security Division of the Aviation Department and provide the following services at the airport:
* Monitoring of secure areas;
* Conducting inspections;
* Escorting within the secured areas;
* Enforcing security guidelines;
* Preventing and detecting unauthorized access; and,
* Preventing any unauthorized items into the secured areas.
These roles and responsibilities are necessary to comply with a variety of federal, state and local security requirements and are over and above the law enforcement responsibilities of the San Antonio Airport Police.
A pre-solicitation briefing was presented to the Audit and Accountability Committee on November 13, 2018. A Request For Proposal was released on November 29, 2018 for a contract term of five years.
Two proposals were received on February 1, 2019. The evaluation committee met on April 5, 2019 and scored the proposals on the published criteria of experience, background, qualifications and proposed plan. The committee representatives were Russell J. Handy, Director, Aviation Department; Chris Cole, Security Manager, Aviation Department;...
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