QUESTION
When should the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) utilize outside contractors or micro purchase contracts?
1:21:19
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The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) opts for outside contractors when specific skill sets, such as fencing, mechanical work, or apartment clear-outs, are required beyond what their skilled trades department can handle.
- NYCHA properties have the option to engage with the in-house skilled trades department, which includes plumbers, painters, and bricklayers, for most apartment-related work.
- For certain tasks, especially those related to ground maintenance or requiring specialized equipment, NYCHA relies on vendors.
- The introduction of IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity) contracts has led to a decrease in the use of micro purchase contracts, transitioning towards more competitively procured options.
- The decision to use outside contractors can be initiated at the property level but requires central department approval for procurement.
Chris Banks
1:21:19
And what's NICE's current policy on when a outside contractor, like those used in a micro purchase contract, should be used.
Sergio Paneque
1:21:28
I'm sorry.
1:21:28
Can you repeat the question?
Chris Banks
1:21:30
What is Nietz's current policy on when a outside contractor like those used and the Michael Purchase contract should be used.
Sergio Paneque
1:21:41
Okay.
1:21:41
I appreciate it.
Lisa Bova Hiatt
1:21:42
Thank you for that question.
1:21:43
I'm gonna turn it over to Dan Green.
Daniel Greene
1:21:47
Thank you, thank you, Chairbanks, for that question.
1:21:52
So the way it works is at the property level.
1:21:55
We have we have really you have 2 choices, really.
1:21:59
At the property level, they can choose to go through our nitrous skilled trades department.
1:22:03
Or which we have at night shift.
1:22:05
We have plumbers.
1:22:06
We have plasters.
1:22:07
We have painters, bricklayers, lasers.
1:22:11
We have 8 skill trades in operation.
1:22:14
So so and and they do the majority of the work in the apartments, but there's certain work, for example, especially around the grounds.
1:22:22
Fencing.
1:22:23
Certain although we have a we have a lot of equip so we have a very large ground.
1:22:27
So we have a lot of fences.
1:22:28
We have a lot of pump equipment that we need in our mechanical areas.
1:22:35
We have lobby doors.
1:22:37
We have doors in our each of our stairwells.
1:22:41
That type of work there is where where we will where we will turn to a vendor.
1:22:46
For example, like if we need an apartment cleared out, after somebody moves out, and it's a lot of like, I had one today.
1:22:53
It was a lot of stuff that some questionable items in there.
1:22:56
Needed you know, we need we didn't want our own staff to do it, so we we bring in a vendor to do it.
1:23:01
And it's a quick process to get this additional work done.
1:23:04
Bottom line is there's a lot of work at night job.
1:23:05
I totally appreciate.
1:23:06
I love our skilled trades.
1:23:07
I, you know, I work with them on a daily basis, but there's a lot of work at night job.
1:23:12
And we do need to rely on vendors to do a lot of that work.
1:23:16
I do want to just note one other thing.
1:23:18
Micro purchases is one option available to our properties.
1:23:21
But over the past couple of years, there have been our procurement department has worked with operations to bring in IDIQ contracts They now cover a lot of the scope that micro purchases used to cover.
1:23:32
So we've actually seen, and Mister Panicky can elaborate on this.
1:23:36
A decline in micro purchases this in 2023 as we rely on IDIQ contracts, which are competitively procured.
1:23:43
So we have started again taking those steps.
1:23:45
But there's so there's more than one avenue available for us for our for our superintendents.
Chris Banks
1:23:51
Okay.