Q&A
Comptroller's denial of Keefe Group contract registration
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Council Member Julie Won inquires about the Comptroller's denial of the Keefe Group contract registration, citing multiple procedural rule violations. She specifically asks about the adverse and negative vendor issues mentioned by the Comptroller and the DOC's failure to meet performance evaluation requirements.
- The Comptroller denied registration due to late submission, insufficient funds, inconsistencies about employee displacement, MWBE non-compliance, unresolved vendor issues, and missing accountability forms.
- Won emphasizes the discrepancy between DOC's testimony of no real negative vendor issues and the Comptroller's findings.
- She questions why DOC is behind on required vendor performance evaluations dating back to 2021.
Julie Won
1:03:42
Thank you so much, chair nurse.
1:03:44
On February 29, 2024, the controller of the city of New York denied the registration for the Kyiv contract.
1:03:51
And I wanted to understand because it was denied on lack of compliance to multiple procedural rules.
1:04:00
The first one was the subject contract action, which was submitted, months after its contract start date, and it lacked appropriation of sufficient funds to support the entire year of the contract.
1:04:13
2nd was inconsistencies concerning the contract's potential displacement of city employees.
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3rd was failure to comply to with requirements concerning MWBE.
1:04:24
4th was failure to resolve all adverse and negative vendor issues as required prior by the p p PBB rules prior to the vendor commencing work on July 1st, and failure lastly, failure to provide a timely completed doing business accountability form.
1:04:42
What I'm most interested in, because we heard you testify especially about how there is basically, there are no real negative vendor issues, but clearly, the comptroller had evidence that there are adverse and negative vendor issues that are required to be resolved prior to commencing work.
1:05:00
Can you expand on, pursuant to the PBB rules, agencies shall monitor a vendor performance no less than once annually.
1:05:09
The comptroller has noted that DOC is behind on required vendor performance evaluations dating to 2021, and there are just one vendor performance evaluations for the Keefe Group since 2022.
1:05:21
Can you refute the comptroller's assertion or explain why the agency is failing to meet its performance evaluation requirements and what has been done to remedy those issues that he has outlined?