Key MassDOT staffer praised Suffolk Construction on social media, shared MRI with top Fish deputy
Global Partners alleges Scott Bosworth manipulated the MassDOT Service Plaza procurement process
Scott Bosworth, the MBTA’s Chief of Transit Oriented Development and MassDOT Selection Committee leader, praised Suffolk Construction on social media earlier this year prior to the announcement of Applegreen/Suffolk Construction as the winning bidder for a 35 year lease to manage eighteen Massachusetts rest stops.
Bosworth also shared a medical record from Radiology Associates of Port Orange Florida with Patrick Lucey, a top deputy to Suffolk CEO John Fish and the Northeast General Manager of Suffolk Construction, on or around January 2025, suggesting a close personal relationship with at least one Suffolk Construction executive.
“Thank you very much, Pat!” is how Bosworth responded to Lucey in a January 6th email with the semi-redacted subject line reading “MRI#!.pdf” The email is included as an exhibit in Global’s superior court case against the Commonwealth, obtained by Global via a public records request. The medical record is almost completely redacted in the court documents.
Bosworth hung up the phone yesterday when asked why he would be sharing a medical record with a Suffolk Construction executive. A MassDOT spokeswoman also had no comment on the medical record issue.
Just four months before the bid award, Bosworth praised Suffolk Construction on his LinkedIn account.
“A beautiful monument to the power of public/private partnerships!” reposting Suffolk Construction project administrator Diana Siewko and tagging other participants in the South Station tower project.
Bosworth had “no comment” when asked as to why he would publicly praise Suffolk Construction while he served as a key staffer in the decision making process and the service plaza RFP decision was pending with Applegreen/Suffolk as a bidder.
A call to Patrick Lucey at Suffolk Construction went unanswered.
Bosworth has emerged as a central player in the potential bid manipulation case as alleged by Global Partners, the Waltham based company that lost out on the lease and has now sued the Commonwealth and filed a state ethics commission complaint against Bosworth.
Global specifically alleges that Bosworth was seeking, or had recently sought, employment from Applegreen or from Applegreen’s parent company, Blackstone.
“Bosworth was simultaneously negotiating personal employment while positioned to influence procurement decisions. During public comment provided by Applegreen, officials on June 18, 2025 stated they had been working on the RFP for THREE years, putting that squarely in the timeframe Bosworth was actively seeking employment with the very team that was ultimately selected. The RFP was released less than a year ago,” according to Global’s pending state ethics complaint against Bosworth.
The service plaza contract was awarded in June 2025.
It wasn’t the first time Bosworth publicly touted Suffolk Construction.
Bosworth was named a Spring 2025 “executive fellow” for the George Bacharach founded Civil Action Project. CAP’s mission is to “promote better policy-making and to diversify policy-makers.”
Bosworth has not been active on X since approximately 2023 but he’s shown a penchant for supporting incumbents and signaling consistent with the trending Massachusetts political vibe. Bosworth has served in transportation roles at least three gubernatorial administrations: Baker, Weld and Healey. In the early 1990’s he was a staffer for Republican Congressman Bud Shuster.
Global has also questioned why an MBTA employee would be overseeing a MassDOT RFP.
In exchange for employment consideration Global Partners alleges Bosworth amended the bid specifications to benefit Applegreen, in particular:
extend the lease from 30 to 35 years to allow for different financing options
reduce insurance requirements from $50M to $25M and
reducing parent company liability by “eliminating all guarantor requirements”
“Global believes that MassDOT’s process, and the resulting award may have been improperly influenced by the inappropriate actions of one or more members of the MassDOT Selection Committee and potentially others within state government, resulting in almost $900 million in lost public value for Massachusetts taxpayers. As set forth herein, we believe the evidence demonstrates that Scott Bosworth, an MBTA employee with potential financial conflicts of interest, manipulated the MassDOT Service Plaza procurement process,” the complaint against Bosworth continues.
