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NYCHA representative details reforms to procurement process
2:01:25
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Shin Kim, Senior Vice President of Supply Management and Procurement at NYCHA, outlines several reforms made to the procurement process. These changes aim to ensure that contractors with poor performance histories are not awarded new contracts or renewals.
- Restructuring of the procurement department and development of new standard procedures
- Implementation of robust vendor disqualification and responsibility procedures
- Introduction of NYCHA's first procurement ethics policy
- Conduct of numerous training sessions across developments and with vendors
Chris Banks
2:01:25
Okay.
2:01:26
How has NYCHA reformed its procurement process to ensure that contractors with histories of poor performance are not awarded new contracts or renewed?
Shin Kim
2:01:42
Thank you for that question.
2:01:44
We've actually made several reforms to the procurement department, including restructuring, developing new processes, and coming up with standard procedures that have not existed in the past.
2:01:55
As I mentioned earlier, the vendor disqualification process as well as the vendor responsibility procedures are very robust in terms of identifying what we check-in terms of vendor vetting and the actions that are taken as a result of factors that could disqualification.
2:02:14
We also have a long standing non responsibility and protest resolution procedure that lays out the factors for responsibility as well as responsiveness and how to resolve the protest.
2:02:27
All of these efforts related to standard procedures are aimed at really strengthening our vendor base and to ensure that we are working with responsible vendors only.
2:02:36
And if I may add, I'd like to also state that the procurement department last year did institute NYCHA's first procurement ethics policy.
2:02:48
We've conducted numerous training across developments as well as with our vendors, which is also a prerequisite for getting on the micro purchase prequalification list.