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DSS retroactive contracts and steps to reduce reliance
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Council Member Althea Stevens questions DSS about the high volume of retroactive contracts in FY 2024 and asks about steps taken to reduce reliance on retroactive contracting. Diane Mamet from DSS explains their approach, including planning ahead, engaging with MOCS, and providing targeted support to nonprofits based on their infrastructure needs.
- DSS submitted 298 retroactive contracts totaling $2 billion in FY 2024
- DSS aims to register contracts on time but faces challenges with procurement seasonality and service continuity
- The agency is working on both broad planning and individualized support for nonprofits
Althea Stevens
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I'm gonna move into some questions to DSS.
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In FY 2024, HRA submitted 298 retroactive contracts totaling 2,000,000,000.
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What were the primary deliveries deliverers behind the high volume of retroactive submitted, and what concepts conceptual steps has HRA take to reduce its reliance on retroactive contracting going forward?
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So you don't have like steps that you guys are doing to like really like conceptual steps of like okay this is we see this issue, these are the things that we're trying to do, are you just saying you're taking it, mean nonprofit by nonprofit?
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So there are a couple
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you know.
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And could you talk about them because I think it's like you have a very I would love to hear like what those steps are so that like people can have a better understanding and not like, we're kind of so if that would be helpful.
Diane Mamet
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Thank you chair Steven.
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So as I had mentioned earlier, there are things that we can control and things that we cannot control.
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Our goal is to always have contracts registered on time.
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Sometimes procurements are dependent upon seasonality and when they're released and then there's a number of actions that then follows.
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There's a continuity excuse me of services.
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So we do take this very seriously.
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We are continuing to engage with our nonprofits to ensure that we have everything that we need so that we are able to register actions in a timely manner so that we're able to pay them in the same way.
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of different ways that we're looking at this,
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Absolutely, and then we'll start a little bit more broad and then can narrow down a little bit.
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So we do look at, you know, year by year the financial plan and what we're planning to put out for solicitations, right.
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All of that information is available.
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We're also engaging with our partners at MOX to ensure timely registration.
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So it's looking at what's coming up, always planning ahead, how long we're going to need, what kind of lead time to ensure that there's adequate timing to ensure that things are registered on time.
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And then from there, there's also more targeted approaches, right?
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We know that some nonprofits have more infrastructure than others.
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Some might need a little bit more support.
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So there is both a broad look at things as well as an individualized so that we're ensuring that we're supporting
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our nonprofits in an appropriate manner.
Julie Won
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