The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of Denver City Council met on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at approximately 2:00 PM. The meeting included an action item to approve a security contract for Denver International Airport (DEN) and a briefing from the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) on its 2026 work plan. The committee also received updates on a recent perimeter security breach at DEN and other airport matters.
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. It is. Boy, I should have had this pulled up. Thank you for tuning in to Denver City Council and our Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. My name is Chris Hines. I serve at Denver City Council representing District 10. I'm also the vice chair of the committee. Chair Lewis will not be here today. Action item is from our airport about a contract with ACTS Airport Services, our security and public spaces, and then the briefing will be from our Department of Transportation Infrastructure and the 2026 work plan. And I'm sorry, I did not mention what today's date is. For the record, today is Wednesday, May 20th, 2026. So before we go into the action item and then the briefing, let's do some introductions from council members. Starting to the distinguished gentlewoman to my right. Good morning, good afternoon, Manisanville, Northwest Denver District 1. Good afternoon, Darrell Watson, Fine, District 9. I believe we have at least one member online. So Councilmember Flynn. Good afternoon, Stacey Gilmore, District 11. Great, uh, thank you. Um Council Members Flynn and Gilmore. Uh so without further ado, Director Washington, please um uh introduce yourself, introduce your team, and uh and take it away. Uh Phil Washington, CEO of Denver International Airport, and I'll ask my colleagues to introduce themselves. Good afternoon, Dave LeBart, Chief Operating Officer at Denver International Airport. Good afternoon, Sarah Marquez, Senior Vice President Airport Operations, Denver International. Thanks for having us. And we will dive right into the presentation, the action item, if that's okay, Mr. Chair. Once again, thank you for your time this afternoon. We are bringing forward to you a contract with ACTS in the amount of 79,553,656. The contract term that we're asking for is five years. That's a three-year with two one year options. And the purpose of this contract is to provide comprehensive security across dens curbside and public area interfaces. A little bit more about this contract. The services provided under this contract are over site over our track our terminal traffic management, our access control and security, our main terminal, our airport office building that some of you are very familiar with, our loading dock, patrolling event uh access management that includes our new uh Center for Equity and Excellence in Aviation, otherwise known as SIA, security incident resolution, patrols within the main terminal as well as our hotel transit center, and then monitoring our sterile area exits. You'll see that near the trains in the main terminal. Vehicle patrols in our public lots, so all of our public-facing lots are patrolled by this company, and enforcement of our trespassing rules. With Vision 100, this contract aligns with our pillar three, maintaining what we have, and really that is this contract would continue to offer security presence in our public areas, supporting DEN and maintaining its security stance, ensuring compliance with not only all rules and regulations, but with all applicable transportation security administration regulations. A little bit about our community outreach. Vendors attended, and that was hosted in September of 2025. For MWBE, working with the DSBO, they assigned an MWBE goal of 5% for this contract. The existing contract also has a 5% goal, and that vendor is averaging over 6% on the current performance of that. The subcontractor performing that MWBE service is advanced professional security, otherwise known as APS. And DSBL reviewed and signed off on the MWE plan on December 17th of 2025. About our selection process. So we went out for a competitive request for proposal. We received eight qualified bidders. Our selection panel was made up of various city and county of Denver stakeholders as well as security and operations subject matter experts, and our community members.