Committee on Contracts

This bill would require the inclusion of businesses owned by persons of Middle Eastern and North African descent in any future disparity study conducted for the purpose of determining eligibility for certification in the City’s Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise program.

This bill would require the inclusion of businesses owned by persons of Middle Eastern and North African descent in any future disparity study conducted for the purpose of determining eligibility for certification in the City’s Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise program.

This bill would require agencies to conduct outreach and education tailored to businesses in minority- and women-owned business enterprise (M/WBE) categories for which agencies fail to achieve M/WBE utilization goals. Agencies would utilize the Office of Ethnic and Community Media and community-based organizations to conduct the outreach and education, which would inform businesses about issues related to agency procurement. This bill would also make technical amendments related to the numbering and headings of certain sections of the contracts and purchases chapter of the Administrative Code.

This bill would require agencies to conduct outreach and education tailored to businesses in minority- and women-owned business enterprise (M/WBE) categories for which agencies fail to achieve M/WBE utilization goals. Agencies would utilize the Office of Ethnic and Community Media and community-based organizations to conduct the outreach and education, which would inform businesses about issues related to agency procurement. This bill would also make technical amendments related to the numbering and headings of certain sections of the contracts and purchases chapter of the Administrative Code.

This bill would require each contractor that has entered into a human services contract with a city agency to disclose certain information about any subcontract to the contracting agency within 30 days of executing a subcontract with an entity known to the contractor to be a certified minority- or women-owned business enterprise for construction, professional services, standard services, or goods. Such disclosures would include the name, address, and contact information of the subcontractor and the value and type of work or goods to be provided. No later than October 31 of each year, each agency that administered a human services contract during the preceding fiscal year would be required to transmit those disclosures to the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services for each such subcontract executed or amended during that fiscal year.

This bill would require each contractor that has entered into a human services contract with a city agency to disclose certain information about any subcontract to the contracting agency within 30 days of executing a subcontract with an entity known to the contractor to be a certified minority- or women-owned business enterprise for construction, professional services, standard services, or goods. Such disclosures would include the name, address, and contact information of the subcontractor and the value and type of work or goods to be provided. No later than October 31 of each year, each agency that administered a human services contract during the preceding fiscal year would be required to transmit those disclosures to the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services for each such subcontract executed or amended during that fiscal year.

This bill would bar all city agencies from purchasing non-compostable, single-use cups, unless the purchase of those cups was necessary for the protection of public health or safety, emergencies, or for contracts that predate the bill’s effective date.

This bill would bar all city agencies from purchasing non-compostable, single-use cups, unless the purchase of those cups was necessary for the protection of public health or safety, emergencies, or for contracts that predate the bill’s effective date.