It appears as if it will be months before the state picks a new vendor to operate the highly lucrative concessions operations at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.
Just weeks after suing the state to block the contract from being awarded to a new, politically connected company, the current operator of the airport’s concessions has reached a tentative agreement with state officials on a timetable for pausing the company’s lawsuit and the state’s consideration of a new contract.
In documents filed just before Christmas in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, the current concessions vendor, Fraport Baltimore Partnership, LLC, and the Maryland Aviation Administration agreed that the company’s lawsuit, filed earlier in December, should be stayed until at least Feb. 15. At the same time, the state agreed that it would not recommend a new vendor to operate the airport concessions until at least 60 days after that.
The timeline was outlined in a court filing made jointly by Fraport’s attorneys at the Washington, D.C., firm Husch Blackwell, LLC, and the state attorney general’s office.
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