Q&A
Assessment of language access service contracts and utilization of funds
1:23:51
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Council Member Avilés inquires about the assessment of language access service contracts and the utilization of allocated funds. Kenneth Lo from MOIA explains the guidance provided to agencies and future plans for improving contract management.
- MOIA worked with the Mayor's Office of Contract Services to provide guidance to agencies on vendor selection
- There's an initiative to advance more purchasing dollars to minority and women-owned business enterprises
- MOIA plans to use data from Local Law 6 reporting to guide agencies in their language service use
- Future plans include establishing a better set of vendor partners and more deliberate use of expenditure information
Alexa Avilés
1:23:51
Yep.
1:23:51
Thank you.
1:23:52
I in the report, I counted a 135 distinct contracts and was really curious about the quality of those services.
1:24:05
Certainly, the contract amounts and what the report notes was expended.
1:24:09
There's a lot of daylight for certain agencies.
1:24:12
I was curious what happens to that funding for a contract that, you know, a $1,000 contract.
1:24:19
They only use $200,000.
1:24:22
Does that mean just the 800 $1000 that stays with the agency.
1:24:27
Is there financial reasons why agencies are not utilizing the full scope of their project or, you know, of the of the contract funding?
1:24:36
So I was curious certainly how how Moya was either, how they were assessing, how city agencies are engaging in contracting services, and what happens to those resources that are not utilized?
Kenneth Lo
1:24:56
2 years ago, we worked with a managed help us with contract services and TCAS, as TCAS's contracts were sunsetting, and we provide provided guidance to the agencies, the Acos, and their procurement teams in conjunction with their collaborators at various office of contract services to what to look for in vendors.
1:25:25
Beyond that, there was the there's there's guidance from the mayor's office for minority in when own business enterprises to advance initiatives to get more purchasing dollars to those types of of business enterprises.
1:25:51
And we've helped the agencies put contracts in place.
1:26:00
I would say that they are the current state of affairs, and it's always a bit of a stock gap.
1:26:07
We do wanna make sure that in the future that there are better sets of vendors to partners.
1:26:15
And then also in conjunction with, you know, this so far, we've had one round of reporting on language service expenditures because of local law 6.
1:26:26
I mean, do you want to over the course of the, you know, next round and the subsequent round and more deliberate about what we do with that information and help guide agencies for it in in that arena of their their language service use.
