The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee convened on October 15, 2025, to review and approve four janitorial contracts for Denver International Airport (DEN) and receive a quarterly update from the Regional Transportation District (RTD). The meeting featured detailed presentations from airport officials on contract unbundling and MWBE goals, followed by RTD updates on FasTracks completion and downtown rail reconstruction. Council members engaged in extensive Q&A, focusing on cost justifications, vendor performance, and community transit needs.
Denver. It's time for this biweekly meeting of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of Denver City Council. Join us for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee starting now. Good afternoon, and welcome to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Today is Wednesday, October 15th, 2025. And my name is Chantel and Lewis, and I serve the very incredible and impeccable residents of District 8. That's where they all are in case you were worried. And I'm excited to share this committee. And we will start with a round of introductions and we can start to the fine gentleman to my left. Good afternoon, Florida Vidres, representing Lucky District 7. Kevin Flynn, Southwest Member District 2. Great. Thank you. It doesn't look like we have anyone online, but if they do join, I will make sure we introduce them. And we do have Councilman Heinz coming in, so I will let you introduce yourself as well. Present perfect time. Thank you so much. So we do have a few action items. The first one is 251486 through 1489. I'm a presentation by Den regarding your janitorials contracts. And so I will have you all introduce yourselves and then you can dive in. Thank you. Good afternoon, Dave LePort, Chief Operating Officer at the Airport. Kyle's for senior vice president of maintenance. Lake Shaw, Senior Director, Airport Services. And we'll start with Mr. Lester. So in front of you, Council members, we have four items. This comes from when we debundled our janitorial contract quite a few years ago working towards this. Now there's four contracts. First one is the main terminal. Second is the concourses A, B, and C, trash and treacherator rooms, is the third, and food courts. Maintaining what we have, increasing our level of service, breaking out these contracts into more focus on each element, increasing our customer service experience, and kind of provide spreading out the workload amongst for these opportunities. Also, we have our equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility. We felt that providing more opportunity brings more people to the table. I'll let Lakeisha take over from here. So on these four opportunities, we did conduct outreach over the course of the end of the year. We did conduct three outreach events prior to advertising in March. We did follow the procurement process via the city ordinance and dens rules and regulations. Proposers had just over 30 days to review, prepare, and submit their proposals. The first one is approves a contract with Black Ship Aviation Services. And this contract will support the main terminal airport office building and related areas within the terminal facility at the airport. This is a standalone contract for the main terminal airport office building and areas within the terminal facility that are public and non-public. It does provide cleaning services for the restrooms, office spaces, stairwells, floors, carpets, and conveyances on all levels of the facility and the AOB. Each of the contract opportunities does include some type of autonomous equipment worked into each of the overall work plans. Each contract will provide the ability to scale labor to meet the growing demands and the needs of the passengers and the facility at the airport as we continue to go through several redesign and remodifications of the facility. And the scope will allow for us to manage the unique challenges that we see specifically in the terminal with passengers and families that come to drop off their passengers and pickup throughout the day. The contract will allow the airport to incorporate the completion of the redesign mod three terminal once that's open in the next two years, and also allow us to elevate the level of service as we see the need to do so with the additional facilities. For this opportunity, Flagship was the selected vendor out of 13 proposals received. The terminal opportunity does have a MWBE goal of 25%.