Long-Term Leasing of State-Owned Skating Rinks: A Competitive Contracting Success Story

Author: Susan Frechette

This paper looks at the success of competitive contracting in addressing long-term cap- ital needs, reducing operating costs, and expanding access to state-owned skating rinks since the 1990s. It argues that the lessons learned from the experience can be applied notonly to other assets in recreation portfolio that are suffering from budget cuts and neglect, but also to many other services and activities that the Commonwealth has been performing directly.

Long-Term Leasing of State Skating Rinks: A Competitive Contracting Success Story