State restarts controversial bidding process for BWI Airport concessions contract
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 20, 2023
Passengers walk through a terminal at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
Seven months after pulling the plug on a controversial process to find a company to run the concessions operations at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, the state is trying again.
Late Monday, the Maryland Department of Transportation issued a document known as a Request for Proposal, seeking bidders that want to oversee concessions at the state-owned airport for the next two decades.
“One of the Administration . . .