Request for Expressions of Interest - Aberdeen Aquatic Center

The City of Aberdeen is seeking expressions of interest from individuals or firms interested in leasing or acquiring the Aberdeen Family Aquatic Center located at 615 Old Robinhood Road. The City is seeking interested parties to lease or acquire the 11.18 acre swim facility and expand the recreational uses to include multi-purpose field(s), enclosing the swimming pool to create a year round asset, and additional family-oriented activities.

The Aquatics Center contains an extraordinarily well maintained 50-meter Olympic-sized swimming pool, the only one in Harford county, and tot pool. The office/bathroom facilities, storage building, playground equipment, large covered pavilion areas are in good condition. The large parking lot was resurfaced just last year. The entire facility and grounds have been mutually maintained by the Aberdeen Department of Public Works and leadership from the Aberdeen Aquatics organization and Boys and Girls Club since its acquisition. In the last four years, approximately $200k worth of documented equipment and improvements have been made across the campus.

A pre-proposal conference will be held on August 16, 2018 at 1:00 pm EDT in the 2nd floor conference room of the Aberdeen Municipal Building located at 60 North Parke Street, Aberdeen, MD 21001. The pre-proposal conferece will be the opportunity for interested individuals or firms to raise questions regarding this solicitation. Attendance is non-mandatory to submit a proposal.

Proposals are to be delivered to Aberdeen City Hall, 60 North Parke Street, Aberdeen, MD 21001 and are to be clearly marked: EOI 19-001 Aberdeen Family Aquatic Center. Proposals are due by August 24, 2018 by 4:00 p.m. EDT

Once submitted, all proposals become the property of the City of Aberdeen, Maryland. The City of Aberdeeen reserves the right to any and all ideas included in the responses without incurring any obligations to the responding individual or firm.