QUESTION
Council Member Won Asks About MOCS and MWBE Outreach Initiatives for Increased Procurement Participation
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This chapter delves into the MOCS (Mayor's Office of Contract Services) and its efforts to improve MWBE (Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises) participation in public procurement. The speakers discuss the successes of the MOCS in your neighborhood program, which includes over 33 training sessions reaching nearly 5,000 vendors, and the establishment of MWBE borough-based outreach events. These initiatives aim to build the capacity and competitiveness of MWBEs, demonstrating significant interagency cooperation and direct engagement with potential vendors.
Speaker 2
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And I wanna acknowledge that we've been joined by council members and the nurse.
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What program and services does Mocks offer to build the capacity and competitiveness of MWDEs to encourage their participation in the public procurement process on how effective have they been?
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What is under your purview outside of SBS?
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Us?
Speaker 6
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Absolutely.
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So I think that's actually a great example of where there is a significant amount of interagency cooperation.
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We have, as I I know, testified too.
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The last time I was here regarding emergency contracts, we have an extensive mocks in your neighborhood program, whereby under this administration, unlike in previous administrations, Mox is putting itself out there into the neighborhoods going to using the SBS mobile van booking out chambers of commerce rooms, doing all these things to as you discussed, Tier 1, of really getting into a meeting vendors where they are so that we can help them with what are tedious and difficult things.
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But if you have someone standing there with, you can take 5 minutes.
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So we've seen a huge amount of success, I will pull it up for you right now.
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So in terms of in terms of our mocks in your neighborhood, we've had over 33 trainings, both in person and online, 4900 individuals.
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These are vendors, not agency personnel.
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Vendors are potential vendors who are attending these sessions.
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And we're seeing an incredibly high uptick in terms of them actually as we say getting file So we have people who are going there and attending those hearings.
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They are attending those meetings.
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They are going to filing exponentially faster.
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So 33 train things in this new administration.
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We hope to continue to do more, and and that is an area where I I do have to empty size, SBS runs their procurement training institute, which they're which is very specific, which ONWE and Mocks also assist with.
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So we had the agency cited trainings as well as the vendor cited trainings.
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We have both.
Speaker 2
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How many people attended those 33 trainings?
Speaker 6
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It was over 4900, and that's vendors.
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So we call you company multiple individuals from one vendor, but 4900 of vendor side.
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Yes.
Speaker 5
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Yeah.
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I just wanted to mention also is that we've created MWBE barrel based outreach events.
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And so we are taking the city's MWB programming to each one of the boroughs We we had a standing room only a crowd in the Bronx.
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Last week, we will be going to Queens in April.
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These MWBE Bureau Outreach events are are coordinating in conjunction with the Bronxboro president.
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And other same wave of canvases.
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And so we wanna take our programming to the boroughs.
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And so in a perfect world, if there are are large contracts that are going on.
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We want to expose our MWA Firms to those 3rd party contractors and consultants subcount tracking opportunities.
Speaker 2
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This was for Marx.
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This is something he goes.