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Chair Buery and Director Chafee discuss accountability for procurement delays and elevating MOCS
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Chair Richard R. Buery Jr. asks IBO Director Louisa Chafee for specifics on elevating the Mayor's Office of Contract Services (MOCS) to charter status and potential accountability mechanisms for payment delays. Chafee suggests MOCS could produce a procurement management report similar to the Mayor's Management Report (MMR) and advocates for charter language clarifying that work should not begin before contract registration.
- Elevating MOCS could involve codifying its role (currently based on executive order) and mandating reporting on procurement performance.
- Chafee discusses the lack of consequences for the city not paying nonprofits on time, contrasting it with construction contracts where work doesn't start until the contract is registered.
Richard R. Buery Jr.
0:15:01
you talked about the situation regarding particular responsibilities or roles that we give to as part of that.
0:15:08
It it would be just an elevation of charter.
0:15:11
And the second question maybe about related is just around accountability, which is are there particular are there accountability mechanism to the city or it failed to present a private matter that I just sent it to you?
Louisa Chafee
0:15:26
The mayor's office operations is is chart mandated to produce the mayor's management report.
0:15:32
I would argue that there would be merit for the mayor's office contract services to produce a parallel procurement management report, which would, basically highlight how the commitments of the administration were being delivered and procured, across multiple industries.
0:15:50
There are pockets of that now, for example, in WBE reporting, but it's not a comprehensive.
0:15:55
Apart from that, I would codify what's basically an executive order.
0:15:59
That's the first part.
0:16:00
Second part of the question is what's the consequence of not paying?
0:16:03
Should it be?
0:16:07
Well, there's debate that there should be the ability in other sectors, if providers are not paid, they simply do not perform services.
0:16:15
So for example, in construction in the city, if the city has a registered contract, service doesn't begin.
0:16:21
Nonprofit providers do begin.
0:16:23
That's why we're encouraging the language in the charter to make it clear that the work may not begin until the contract is registered.