Thunder Bay’s 8,000 soccer players should have been looking forward to playing in an indoor turf facility at Fort William Stadium this winter built and operated by a private company.
The proposal from Colab Sport Management was one of the Expressions of Interest submitted to the city months ago for its consideration as an alternative to a city-owned facility.
And here’s the kicker: Colab, the private southern Ontario firm, was going to pay for the bubble and to take it up and down each year. And we did not need City Manager Norm Gale at the last minute pull out from beneath his suspenders a requirement that the winning Expression of Interest would have to undergo a further Request for Proposals.
In the case of the Indoor Turf Facility, Expressions of Interest was the route chosen to seek the greatest diversity of proposals. Once you choose an idea put together by a proponent, you do not then go out and undermine his proposal by asking for others to provide competitive bids for the proponent’s proposal.
The Indoor Turf Facility is a perfect example of how the city is making up the rules as it goes along, leaving the private sector scratching its collective head wondering how it can ever get a fair deal from the city.
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