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Issues with selecting the cheapest bidder for food contracts
1:16:24
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Council Members Alexa Aviles and Julie Won express concerns about the practice of selecting the cheapest bidder for food contracts in shelters. They question whether this approach can produce quality results.
- Aviles points out that choosing the cheapest option often leads to quality issues.
- Won highlights a discrepancy where higher bidders with poor performance records are sometimes selected over cheaper, higher-quality options.
- The council members use Riviera Caterers as an example of a higher bidder with ongoing complaints about food quality.
Alexa Aviles
1:16:24
This is a problem across the city that the cheapest would actually produce anything of quality.
1:16:37
Manage between the cheapest and just qualified?
Julie Won
1:16:41
Also feels like the most straight qualified.
1:16:43
But the discrepancy is because we have evidence that they choose to not go with the cheapest who would have provided higher quality, and yet they're going with a higher bidder and expanding them even though an example like Riviera continues to have complaints of terrible food.
1:16:57
Doesn't make sense.