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ENTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO: Emilio T Gonzalez DATE:
City Manager
FROM: Jose Gell
Interim Executive Director
Bayfront Park Management Trust
SUBJECT:
July 17, 2018
Approval of finding to waive
competitive sealed bidding methods
for the presentation of the Ultra Music
Festival at Bayfront Park
REFERENCES:
ENCLOSURES:
At the July 26, 2018, the Miami City Commission is being asked to consider approving a mutli-year Use
Agreement between the Bayfront Park Management Trust (BPMT) and Event Entertainment Group, Inc. for the
presentation of the Ultra Music Festival at Bayfront Park beginning in March 2019.
The BPMT respectfully requests your approval and action of the Miami City Commission by a 4/5ths affirmative
vote, after an advertised public hearing ratifying, approving, and confirming the City Manager's (and the
Bayfront Park Management Trust's Executive Director) recommendation, and finding that competitive bidding/
negotiation methods are not practicable or advantageous to the City of Miami ("City"), pursuant to Section 18-
85(a) of the Code of the City of Miami; waiving the requirements for said procedures; authorizing the City
Manager to enter into a Use Agreement, in substantially the attached form, with the BPMT and Event
Entertainment Group, Inc., a Florida for profit corporation, subject to City Commission approval.
The Ultra Music Festival (Ultra) has been at a BPMT facility since March 2001, and in March 2018, the BPMT
hosted the 20th anniversary edition of the music festival. Ultra is a local, home-grown success story generating
substantial funds for Bayfront Park and the Miami business community through hotel room bookings, airline
travel, restaurants, car services, cleaning services, other personal services, and City of Miami police and fire
services, just to name a few. It is a well -established, unique entertainment event that focuses worldwide
attention on Miami.
For reasons stated above, as required by Section 18-85(a) of the Code of the City of Miami, the BPMT
respectfully finds that competitive sealed bidding /negotia .on methods are not practicable or advantageous to
the City or the BPMT for the aforementioned Ultra Musi► Festival ,
If these recommendations
with these findings pleas
Approved:
indings meet with yl r approval, please indicate by executing below. If you concu
ent this w itten findi • to the City Commission for the required 4/5t vote approval.
Dat
Emilia T. Gonzalez, City Ma . • -
cc: Fernando Casamayor, Chief Financial Officer/Assistant City Manager
Joe Napoli, Deputy City Manager
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