QUESTION
What role does the federal government play in procuring contracts for city services?
1:03:00
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Roman Gofman explains that the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) utilizes federal procurement to secure contracts for city services, such as security guards and environmental services.
- The federal government conducts competitive solicitations on behalf of states and municipalities, which can then utilize these contracts.
- DCAS has used federal procurement for services like security through the FJC contract and environmental services through the Garden Environmental contract.
- This intergovernmental procurement allows local entities like DCAS to piggyback on federal efforts, streamlining the procurement process.
- The discussion includes concerns over the high cost of security guard contracts, emphasizing the need for financial oversight.
Vickie Paladino
1:03:00
As I also see, I wrote a little note here about the feds.
1:03:04
What do the fed the federal statistics?
1:03:07
What do they when you mentioned the federal government, what what role do they play in this, if any, at all?
1:03:15
You mentioned federal government.
1:03:16
Can you please go over that?
Roman Gofman
1:03:17
Yes.
1:03:18
Just first on the security guards, the the report that issued that there's guards that are making $24 towards the premium wage or the guards that you see at DHS, Those are actually the decast contract regards through FJC.
1:03:30
Right?
1:03:30
So the report is saying that decast has has or had because the contract expired.
1:03:35
A contract where the guards are making prevailing wage schedules for overhead profit, and the Department of Homeland Services currently using our FJC contract as a task order from the previous contract.
1:03:45
As far as the federal government question, that garnered environmental contract that we entered into from 2014 and are still in today
Gale A. Brewer
1:03:53
Mhmm.
Roman Gofman
1:03:54
Was a the way we procure it instead of doing a competitive solicitation, the federal government already did the procurement and the competitive solicitation on the country's behalf, and every state municipality, Merrill Agency, could tap into those contracts by doing that into governmental procurement.
1:04:12
And that's how we got garden environmental.
1:04:13
We used the federal government's procurement Mhmm.
1:04:16
And we piggyback off of it and got into a contract.
Vickie Paladino
1:04:20
Okay.
1:04:21
Well, all I could say is these security guard companies that have been hired really need to be looked at because nobody's worth a $119 an hour when there's people out there that could barely make a living flipping hamburgers in McDonald's and paying a mortgage.
1:04:37
Absolutely ridiculous, and it's a sin.
Lincoln Restler
1:04:41
Thank you.