The vendor required to provide established commercial boating vendors including cruise ship and other boat operators and individual water sport outfitters and pier managers.
- Boat operators and pier managers
• Contribute to use of pier as a quality-of-life asset for city and area residents and visitors and as an economic generator for the city including passenger generated revenues and boat operations local employment and operating expenditures.
• Provide a diversity of engaging and enriching river waterfront experiences and activity choices to ensure recurring visits by residents and visitors to pier.
• Experiences could include cruises and excursions for site seeing, historic, ecological, educational, dinner, theme, dance or personal or organizational special cruise events; and other water borne usages such as jet ski or pontoon boat outfitters and transient boat dockage.
• Other activities could include, fishing, walking, canoeing, and kayaking, via an act compliant kayak launch.
• Provide information and encouragement to residents and visitors to pier to also and use other land-based city assets, destinations, businesses, organizations or events during their current and future visits.
• Support multiple boat operators with vessels of varying sizes and types which would operate in a coordinated and cooperative fashion and combine to create the greatest and most diverse pier usage to residents and visitors.
• Generate revenue to the city from rent or user fees from commercial boat operators, outfitters, and transient dockers to assist the city with the maintenance, improvements, and operations of the pier.
• Make semi-annual boat operating reports to the pier manager on your respective boating activities and on meeting license agreement requirements.
- Pier managers
• Ensure pier functions in a well-managed, safe, and coordinated fashion to maximize the recreational, educational, financial and other benefits to residents and visitors.
• Coordinate multiple pier activities, including commercial boating, transient boating and public use, scheduling, maintaining usership records, financial management and record keeping.
• Coordinate with city departments regarding city services on a regular basis.
• Monitor, assess, report to city departments on public usage and safety issues.
• Serve as a resource for pier conditions review, make recommendations for corrective measures and undertake pier conditions planning, design and construction oversight, and related implementation tasks when able.
• Provide a central point of contact for the public, city administration, city departments, and boat operators (public and private).
• Create an equal opportunity for community of user-operators without undue regard or priority for one company over another.
• Make semi-annual boat operating reports to the city on your respective boating activities and on meeting service agreement requirements.
- The pier is suitable for various forms of boating including, but not limited t
• Scheduled tour boat day trips
• Dinner, sunset, seasonal and themed cruises
• Scheduled tour boat cruise ships with overnight docking
• Tour boat home port
• Historic, educational or specialty boats or educational barges - home port
• Research and other vessels
• Kayak, paddleboard, jet skis, pontoon craft or other specialty boat rental outfitters.
- Contract Period/Term: 5 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: December 19, 2025
