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Proposal for multi-vendor contracts and standardized pricing for shelter food services
0:51:27
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Council Member Farías suggests implementing multi-vendor contracts with standardized pricing for shelter food services to address inconsistencies in costs across different shelters.
- The proposal aims to create a more uniform pricing structure for food services across multiple shelters
- Council Member Farías questions why the city hasn't moved towards a system that allows selection of multiple vendors at standardized rates
- The suggestion is presented as a potential solution to the varying fees charged by different vendors in similar locations
Amanda Farías
0:51:27
Okay and then in were you folks were having a larger conversation earlier about the competitiveness of the contracts and how they're renewed on a varying basis based off of when they were given.
0:51:41
Have we looked at as the administration or entertained the idea of moving towards like a multi bid, multi vendor selected contract so that we are studying the fees and the amounts we're paying for food something chair one was saying earlier of like you could be in the same varying degree of a neighborhood but have three different contracts that they're charging the city at three different rates for, why are we not issuing bids or procurements that have you can select more than one vendor, you can have a vendor for three sites or three different vendors at an x rate.
0:52:17
And I feel like we've asked this almost every hearing but don't get a quiet answer of why we're not moving away from individualized bids versus larger bids to keep a static fee for the same food in different shelters.