QUESTION
Are for-profit organizations involved in operating or subcontracting for emergency shelters for asylum seekers?
1:29:46
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Commissioner Molly Wasow Park acknowledges the involvement of one or two for-profit organizations in operating emergency shelters for asylum seekers, and the allowance for subcontracting for-profit services.
- One or two emergency shelters for asylum seekers are operated by for-profit entities.
- All operations involving for-profit entities are competitively procured through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process.
- Commissioner Park confirms the standard practice of subcontracting with for-profit vendors for services such as food, security, and maintenance within shelter models.
- Specifics on the portion of Department of Homeless Services (DHS) budgeted asylum seeker funding related to for-profit contracts were not available at the meeting.
Diana I. Ayala
1:29:46
Any for profit organizations?
Molly Wasow Park
1:29:50
I believe there are 1 or 2 sites that are operated by for profit organizations we can circle back with you on the specifics.
1:29:57
All of them have responded through RFP.
1:30:00
Everything that we are doing in this space is competitively procured.
Diana I. Ayala
1:30:03
Okay.
1:30:04
And can you provide an estimate of how much of DHS budgeted asylum seeker funding relates to contracts with for profit providers?
1:30:12
So many of it's
Molly Wasow Park
1:30:13
I don't have that number with me, but we can circle back.
Diana I. Ayala
1:30:15
Okay.
1:30:17
And does DHS permit provide us to subcontract with 4 profit organizations?
Molly Wasow Park
1:30:22
So it's very standard within our shelter model that not for profits will subcontract with for profit vendors for things like food and secure early, sometimes maintenance and that is true within both our traditional and our asylum portfolios.
