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Emergency contracts and competitive bidding for migrant shelter food procurement
0:48:53
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Council Member Farías inquires about the number and percentage of emergency contracts for food procurement in migrant shelters. Agency representatives explain that all DHS emergency food contracts were competitively bid, but struggle to provide specific numbers for migrant shelters.
- DHS states that all emergency contract food contracts were competitively bid
- The exact number of emergency contracts for migrant shelters is not immediately available
- The conversation highlights the need for more precise data on emergency contracts
Amanda Farías
0:48:53
So I just want to dial back a little bit to some of the responses that you folks were giving chair one.
0:49:01
Around the percentage of emergency contracts and bids, do you folks have the numbers in front of you how many emergency shelter contracts we have right now that have our food procurement have gone through our food procurement bid and we're serving?
Jill Berry
0:49:16
So all of the DHS emergency contract food contracts were competitively bid.
Amanda Farías
0:49:23
Okay and then out of those contracts do we know the percentage of the number for migrant shelters?
Jill Berry
0:49:32
So every it's a % of DHS contracts,
Amanda Farías
0:49:39
many of the migrant shelters that we've had on emergency bids, emergency contracts, do we have that number in front of us?
Jill Berry
0:49:46
The number of DHS shelters.
Amanda Farías
0:49:48
The emergency bids, where all of these complications are coming from where we've had the emergency bids that had to go out for procurement of the food contracts.
0:49:57
Do we know the percentage of those right now?
0:49:59
Our migrant numbers have been going down or have been steadying rather serving the same amount of people.
0:50:04
I'm trying to get an idea of how many of those emergency contracts are still out there.
0:50:08
Like what's the physical number?
0:50:09
10?
0:50:10
20?
0:50:11
Two hundred and 40?
0:50:12
Something like that and trying to get an idea of how the recertific I know you said they happen continually, the contracts happen recertification, I want to know the percentage that are out there right now.
Kate MacKenzie
0:50:24
Sure.
0:50:24
So DHS can speak to where they are.
0:50:27
As you recall from our last December hearing, we were at the time had health and hospitals, HPD, and DHS that were all operating.
0:50:39
And as you know, the counts are going down thankfully, and I think we can DHS can speak to how the integration of shelters that are again winding down, but where if there are any that are still reliant, which I understand is no, from emergency contracts as opposed to the transition to nonemergency contracts.
0:51:00
Right.