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Mocks events and engagement strategies for vendors
2:21:39
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Kim Yu details the various engagement strategies and events organized by the Mayor's Office of Contract Services (Mocks) to support vendors and potential contractors. These include training series, vendor engagement events, and hands-on assistance.
- Mocks hosts 'Mocks in Your Neighborhood' events in all five boroughs to reach new organizations.
- They offer targeted trainings, coffee hours, and office hours to assist vendors at different stages of the contracting process.
- The office uses multiple communication channels, including websites and social media, to promote these events.
Kim Yu
2:21:39
We do it through a variety of methods, some of which have been spoken about already.
2:21:45
But I will I'll make a plug also.
2:21:47
If a vendor is looking for a contract and is having difficulty, whether it be getting the resources they need to even get started or finding a contract, Moxie's here.
2:22:01
We have a service desk.
2:22:03
We have a website.
2:22:07
We try to push out a lot of information, but even beyond that we have a training series and we have a vendor engagement series.
2:22:19
My predecessor started a program called Mocks in Your Neighborhood.
2:22:22
It goes to each of the five boroughs and it really hosts opportunities to information share generally to bring organizations in that have not traditionally done business with the city of New York, but then also we do targeted trainings for those who do have contracts and maybe are stuck at a particular point in the process, and we call those a variety of things.
2:22:49
We call them coffee hours or office hours, and we do things like we bring laptops to event spaces and we will sit with vendors and we will try to establish a passport account with them, and there's nothing more gratifying than our team setting somebody up so that they can meaningfully compete for a contract with the city of New
2:23:19
We do these events pretty frequently and we do also post on our website calendars, so that those who are interested can sign up and depending on the nature of things sometimes they're just walk in.
2:23:36
And so there's lots of information that we put out there on our website, but in addition to that we posted it on social media.
2:23:41
We put it on Instagram, LinkedIn, X, all those
Rita C. Joseph
2:23:16
York.
2:23:17
How often do you do these events?
2:23:47
I'm a small provider, I have access to none of that.