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NYCHA's contract with Allied Universal and awareness of infractions
1:29:55
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Council Member Chris Banks questions NYCHA about their contract with Allied Universal for security and fire guard services, and when they first became aware of infractions. Lauren Gray from NYCHA explains that they started addressing issues in 2022, implementing corrective action plans and bringing on new vendors when improvements weren't seen.
- The contract with Allied Universal was for $75 million from 2019 to 2023, with renewals totaling $80 million more.
- NYCHA began working on corrections in 2022, including unannounced site visits and requests for geofencing technology.
- New vendors (Wisdom, ISS, CitySafe) were brought on in 2023 and 2024 to replace Allied Universal at some sites.
Chris Banks
1:29:55
you, Contramental Bacha.
1:29:59
I guess I'll go on to the recent DOI report and we'll get a little deeper dive into the recommendations.
1:30:08
NYCHA contracted with Allied Universal for 75,000,000 to provide security and fire guard services from 2019 to 2023.
1:30:19
NYCHA renewed this contract twice for an additional 80,000,000, extending services to February 2024.
1:30:29
When did NYCHA first become aware of infractions by Allied Universal with regard to this contract?
Lauren Gray
1:30:38
So when I came on board and James Secreto, who is the VP for and security, came on board, it was it was 2022.
1:30:46
Okay.
1:30:46
And like I had mentioned earlier, we started to work with Ally to try to correct the wrongs with corrective action plans, additional oversight by doing unannounced site visits, waiting for them to give us the, geofencing technology, timekeeping that was not done on paper.
1:31:04
And when we realized that the work was not improving on Allied side in 2023, We started to work with our law department and our procurement department to bring on additional guards and start to take away some of the allied sites.
1:31:17
And as I mentioned, we brought on wisdom in mid twenty twenty three, ISS at the end of twenty three, and CitySafe in 2024.