LVCVA CEO Steve Hill Says Second Contract Bidding Procurement Process For 2027 College Football Playoff Title Game Job In Las Vegas Was Fair
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The LVCVA’s top executive denied a marketing company owner’s public comments at an LVCVA board meeting Tuesday that the procurement process for a college football game consulting contract “failed to assure fairness to all bidders.”
LVCVA CEO Steve Hill denied a claim by Propyrion owner Richard Manhattan during the meeting’s public comments period that the bidding process around marketing company Position Sports winning a contract in August to work college football’s national championship game was not fair.
“He’s wrong,” Hill said after the LVCVA board meeting Tuesday.
Position Sports won the CFP national championship game job contract from the LVCVA twice. Once in March. And then again in August. In June, the LVCVA — Las Vegas’ publicly-funded tourism agency — said there were problems with the way the LVCVA handled the first contract bidding. So, in an unusual move, the LVCVA decided to rebid the contract this summer.
Before the LVCVA decided to rebid the contract, the LVCVA paid Phoenix-based Position Sports $190,700 for work done in April, May, June and July under the first approved contract that the LVCVA later said in June was awarded under a flawed process.
Position Sports “didn’t do anything wrong” in getting paid under the first contract, Hill said. “We needed to pay them for” the work, Hill explained.
During his public comments at the end of the LVCVA meeting, Manhattan explained that Position Sports had an executive and a future staffer at the 2025 College Football Playoff national championship game in Atlanta where they stayed in hotel rooms arranged by the LVCVA and attended LVCVA meals at Atlanta restaurants. Manhattan said that was one example where Position Sports had an unfair advantage to win the contract in March.
After today’s LVCVA board meeting, LVSportsBiz.com asked Clark County Commissioner Jim Gibson who chairs the LVCVA board about Manhattan’s public comments at the meeting.
Gibson said the LVCVA acknowledged there were problems with the bidding process in the first go-around, which is why the contract was put out to bid a second time in July.
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