This bill would require that City contractors hire an independent MWBE consultant for every contract over ten million dollars as a way to enhance city procurement opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses.
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Proposed Int. No. 1021-A
By Council Members Rosenthal, Cornegy, Crowley, Chin, Johnson, Koo, Mendez, Rose, Richards, Palma, Koslowitz, Miller and Reynoso
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring a minority and women-owned business enterprise consultant for city projects with budgets in excess of ten million dollars
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision h of section 6-129 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add new subparagraph g to read as follows:
(g) For each agency project with a contract budget in excess of ten million dollars and for which minority and women-owned business participation goals have been established pursuant to this section, the contracting agency shall hire an independent consultant with expertise in minority and women-owned business procurement to perform the following functions: (i) assisting the prime contractor in recruiting minority and women-owned businesses for procurement opportunities on such project; (ii) monitoring the prime contractor’s compliance with minority and women-owned business participation goals; and (iii) reporting to the contracting agency on the prime contractor’s performance in meeting minority and women-owned business participation goals.
The prime contractor shall pay all costs associated with such independent consultant.
§2. This local law shall take effect 120 days after its enactment into law.
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10/29/15
LS # 6651