QUESTION
What steps are taken to reexamine current prequalified vendors for micro contracts?
1:30:23
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3 min
NYC Housing Authority explains the process and measures for reexamining prequalified vendors, focusing on ensuring vendor competence and integrity.
- The prequalification lists address challenges related to sealed bids and lowest price requirements.
- Vendors must meet specific competencies, such as experience, licensing, and the provision of references.
- The Department of Investigation (DOI) recommendations are incorporated to enhance vendor integrity at the start of the prequalification process.
- The process was initiated around two years ago, aiming to manage vendors from micro to larger contracts effectively.
Gale Brewer
1:30:23
And one of the follow-up to the vendors who won micro contracts are charged sometimes the same amount close to the 5000 or the 10000 as we heard earlier cut offs for dramatically different goods and services.
1:30:36
And I think, and I asked this of DOE, some vendors on nitrile's current prequalified list have a documented track record of doing this.
1:30:44
So what are we going to do?
1:30:45
What's that you're going to do to re examine the current prequalified?
1:30:50
And I know that what we heard from DOE Was it gonna and you mentioned it also, Dun and Bradstreet and so on.
1:30:55
Is that happening?
1:30:57
Is it all done?
1:30:59
Are you redoing the entire list, etcetera?
Lisa Bova Hiatt
1:31:02
So Sergio can speak to you.
Gale Brewer
1:31:04
I love Sergio.
1:31:05
I know Sergio.
Sergio Paneque
1:31:09
If if I may, Council member brewer.
1:31:13
The prequalified lists that we've established were for the purposes of dealing with some of the challenges that we had with some of our requirements around sealed bids, lowest price, and those challenges.
1:31:27
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that because while we're now establishing the prequalified lists based on certain competencies, And for example, the one in particular that was in the article, you know, that the carpentry list requires experience for 5 years a DOB license, provide 5 references, 3 projects, and so that particular vendor had gone through the VNC process nine times.
1:31:56
So the review from both the DOI VNC check, they have a passport filing, and all of those things.
1:32:04
They were also in S3 BC, a section 3 business concern.
1:32:08
Back into 2020.
1:32:09
They're not right now, they're not a section 3 business concern based on the new rules.
1:32:17
We are looking at those orders.
1:32:23
They were upwards of 700 and some odd purchase orders going back to I believe 2015.
1:32:30
And as of as of 2024, there are no purchase orders in 2023.
1:32:35
There were 10 tile contracts, but we'll work with our partners in compliance and DOO and so forth on that particular.
1:32:45
But prequalified list generally speaking is a good way to establish the competencies and the capabilities that we need in our vendors.
1:32:54
And then create a pool from which we can carry from micro to small to larger contracts in a way that we can actively manage our vendor base.
1:33:03
The DOI recommendations only aid us in that regard and being able to now take vendor integrity at the onset of that prequalification process.
1:33:15
So we started that prequal process around 2 years ago in establishing what those scopes and those requirements were.
1:33:22
And now we'll carry it forward, not again, not only at the micro level, small, but then also in the large contracts.