MOCS cites Passport Release 6 subcontracting improvements

Chair Ressler, if I may just add to this point before we move on.

If you were to move on.

The controller's report was a look back on the performance of the city.

But since then, particularly with MOX and Passport, we did have Release 6.

And Release 6 did introduce a new centralized workflow that included a better way of recording and reporting subcontractor utilization, payments to subcontractors.

Tracking the performance of the subcontractor utilization goals.

And so that data does exist today.

So you're seeing a significant increase in...

And that information will be available for city agencies to consume.

Is that the report that Chief Gardner referenced that is coming to him on Friday?

I believe Chief Garner is talking about the subcontractor payments that are recorded.

So, yes.

Okay.

So you think now, based on your expertise and the improvements in Release 6, that we actually have a much better understanding of the subcontractor landscape today than we did a year ago?

I would say it's fair to say that we have the tools now and the data available that will allow us to address the issue, which we agree.

It's a management, it's an oversight, management performance issue.

And we just want to be able to what

MOX is always trying to do, get better data and make that more available so that we can review and make more informed decisions.

But you don't yet have an understanding of, let's say, what percent of the subcontracts citywide are actually captured here so that we know how many of them are MWBs.

We don't know that.

I think that's something that we would be able to provide, but we'd have to follow up.

I think we'd love to follow up on that.

I'm glad to hear.

I'll just take a step back to say I'm grateful that this is a priority that you all have identified and that you're working on and that the new administration is really digging in on how do we do a better job of gathering this data comprehensively of subcontracts happening and how many are going to MWBs, and you're including the big five.

I think those are all the right things to be doing, and I really want to commend you for it.

You know better than me whether creating a new technology platform was necessary to do this or not, but we're down that course, and I hope that it's successful.

I continue to be skeptical that we're going to get the information into Passport that we need, but it sounds like everybody's trying, and that you're trying from a management perspective, you're trying from a platform improvement perspective, and we'll all push together.

I'm very happy to be a loud and obnoxious council member saying to agencies, do your damn job and report this data.

It's really important.

So let me know how I can be that partner as well.