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Council Member Julie Won on Reforming New York City's Procurement Process through Intro 863A
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Council Member Julie Won outlines legislation to reform New York City's procurement process, addressing issues faced by nonprofit providers and aiming to balance efficiency with oversight.
- Intro 863A raises the threshold for in-depth contract review from $200,000 to $1,000,000.
- The bill applies review requirements to amendments on service contracts that exceed $1,000,000.
- It reduces the public notice period for unplanned contracts from 60 to 10 days.
- The legislation builds upon stakeholder input and recommendations from the 2022 Joint Merrill Controller Task Force.
- Won emphasizes the bill's role in a broader effort to create a more responsive, efficient, and transparent procurement process.
Julie Won
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Intro 8638, this legislation, sponsored by council member, Justin Brandon, represents a crucial step in our ongoing efforts to reform and modernize New York City's procurement process.
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For years, we've grappled with a contracting system that while while intended has often fallen short in practice.
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We've heard countless stories from nonprofit providers about the burdens of excessive paperwork, lengthy delays, and financial strain caused by late payments.
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These issues don't just affect the organizations themselves.
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They report through our communities impacting the delivery of essential services to our most more more residents.
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Let me walk you through the key provisions of this bill, intro 863A, will raise a threshold in-depth contract review from $200,000 to $1,000,000.
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This change reorganizes the reality of today's contracting landscape and allows us to focus our scrutiny where it's matter most on high value contracts with the potential impact on city service resources.
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2nd, intro 86 3a would close a significant loophole by applying these review requirements to amendments on service contracts that will push the value over $1,000,000.
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This ensures that Maiser changes took existing contracts received the same level of scrutiny as new contracts.
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3rd, this bill was streamlined contracting processes by reducing public notice period for unplanned contracts from 60 to 10 days.
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This ensures that as we evolve our contracting processes, we're not inadvertently opening doors to outsourcing city jobs.
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Before I am before I want to emphasize that these changes aren't happening in a vacuum, they build upon stakeholder input when we heard this the last month on recommendations of the 2022 Joint Merrill Controller Task Force to get nonprofits paid on time, and they're part of a broader effort to create a more responsive efficient and transparent procurement process.
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Now I recognize that procurement reform is complex issue, and there's still a lot of work to be done.
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Intro 863 were presents significant step forward.
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It demonstrates our commitment, balancing efficiency with oversight to supporting our non profit partners protecting our city wide workforce to ensure that our contracting process serves the best interest of all New Yorkers.
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Before we vote, I thank council member Brandon again for his leadership and this issue, and I'd like to thank the committee staff, count senior counsel of calling off policy analyst Alex Gap.
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Juan, principal financial analyst, Neahiah, financial finance unit head, Florentine Kabore, for their hard work and putting this hearing together preparing today's vote with that, I'll ask the clerk for a roll call.