Farías asks how many contracts NGBV manages
Farías notes NGBV manages $13 million in Council discretionary funding and asks how many contracts it holds. Sethi says NGBV manages 90 contracts, and Delany-Brumsey says HRA will continue supporting contracting while OCS builds internal capacity.
Okay, thanks, folks.
I'd like to talk a little bit about contracting.
The council has frequently heard that mayoral agencies can struggle to manage procurement processes because they lack the staffing infrastructure to manage contracts.
NGBV currently manages $13 million of council discretionary funding and has support from HRA staff to do so.
How many contracts is NGBV currently managing?
In the portfolio.
Do you want to say the total number of contracts?
Sure.
We have a total of 90 contracts currently.
Nine zero?
Nine zero.
It was like 90.
90.
It's a big portfolio.
And I would just add to that, just for context, that HRA will continue to support NGBV's contracting as OCS builds out our own internal contracting function.
We're building out a contracting function not just to support NGBV, but to support the entire office, which has even more than the 90 contracts.
And we're doing that work in partnership with HRA, as well as the other agencies that currently support our contracting work, in combination with other mayoral offices and city agencies that support contracting so that we can ensure we're building out a contracting shop that has the staffing
and the capacity and the structure in place to do this work well.
We know that contracting...
well is both about meeting city obligations, but it's also about ensuring that the providers that we work with, our contractors, are able to do the good work that we are paying them for.