Sentences with phrase «city contracts awarded»

Bloomberg noted that since December 2005, women - and minority - certified vendors have secured more than $ 2.7 billion in city contracts, with nearly $ 563 million in city contracts awarded to firms owned by minorities and women in 2011 alone.

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Kansas City - based Cerner Corp. has been awarded the Department of Veterans Affairs contract for the VA's next - generation electronic health records system.

Last year, the city awarded a construction contract to a joint venture of infrastructure firm Dragados and Ottawa heavy construction firm Tomlinson for the Combined Sewage Storage Tunnel project,...

It is the largest compensation award for an out of contract player in the history of professional football — the previous record was the # 3.5 million paid by Chelsea to Manchester City for Daniel Sturridge (now at Liverpool).

The park district is scheduled to review five bids at Tuesday «s meeting, and the City Council is scheduled to award a contract July 6, said Mayor Jerry C. Greer.

After two years of searching for a new harbor manager, the Chicago Park District plans to award a five - year contract to Westrec Marinas, the controversial company that currently runs the city's nine marinas.

Miner awarded Jewett a no - bid contract through an obscure arm of city government, the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency, which Miner controls without oversight from the city council.

«The City awards contracts to whichever vendor is best suited for the job.

The NYC Department of Education has awarded contracts worth up to $ 101 million to the NYC Leadership Academy — but didn't keep track of where the money went, a bombshell audit by City Comptroller Scott Stringer charges.

A Mayor Bill de Blasio fundraiser — whose engineering firms have been awarded millions of dollars in city contracts — has been charged with enlisting his employees to donate to...

He gave $ 100,000 to the Campaign for One New York, and was subsequently awarded a city contract.

«This Advisory Council will play a critical role in helping more M / WBE businesses get certified with the City and get more contract awards to M / WBE businesses.»

Two $ 24,999 contracts for outside legal counsel awarded last summer to the Garden City law firm of Hopkins & Kopilow.

Concerns were recently raised when the Department of Education wanted to award a contract to expand internet access in city schools to a company that was tied to a kickback scandal.

Skretny said NRP failed to establish a basis for a civil suit, basically ruling that neither another party to the case — the Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency — nor the mayor, nor any other city official could award Stenhouse a contract without Common Council approval.

A contract for a thousand or more new subway cars for New York City's subways hasn't yet been awarded, a year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled their new design features intended to boost capacity and make the ride more comfortable.

Mangano's defense attorney, Kevin Keating of Garden City, suggested the push to award the jail's bread - and - rolls contract came not from Mangano but from the late Peter Schmitt, then the presiding officer of the legislature.

Catsimatidis, who owns United Metro Energy Corp., is building a new biodiesel - processing facility in Greenpoint, and was already awarded a $ 62 million contract last year that provided city government with «heating oil, bio-blend and bio-heat bulk deliveries,» records show.

Among his complaints, Peebles says de Blasio has failed to follow through on a promise to improve the percentage of contracts the city awards to minority - and women - owned business enterprises, or MBWEs.

Lewis has also complained that City Hall has been slow in awarding contracts to minority - owned firms to work on government projects or provide services.

· A new electronic tracking system is in development that will allow the city to keep its promise to award 30 percent of its contracts to women and minority - owned businesses.

Donohue said the center is a «transformational project» for the city's downtown, adding he was proud that nearly a quarter of contracts were awarded to women - or minority - owned businesses.

The contract follows Adirondack Studios» award - winning work at One World Observatory in One World Trade Center in New York City.

Mega Contracting, incidentally, has been awarded contracts for the construction and rehabbing of a number of municipal projects, including NYCHA houses, MTA station upgrades, and work on schools, police precincts and city hospitals.

At 10 a.m., NYC Council members Carlos Menchaca and Helen Rosenthal, advocates for worker cooperatives and workers express support for a City Council bill scheduled for a Thursday vote that would require reporting of city contracts and small business assistance awarded to worker cooperatives; steps, City Hall, ManhatCity Council bill scheduled for a Thursday vote that would require reporting of city contracts and small business assistance awarded to worker cooperatives; steps, City Hall, Manhatcity contracts and small business assistance awarded to worker cooperatives; steps, City Hall, ManhatCity Hall, Manhattan.

Investigators sought to question an official at the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and requested agency documents about a contract that was awarded to a local company after the firm's owner donated $ 100,000 to a nonprofit affiliated with de Blasio.

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Enough to persuade U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to launch a federal investigation into the awarding of contracts and for members of the city's African - American community to demand more diversity in the hiring of construction workers at the SolarCity plant at Riverbend.

The city also wants to amend state law to allow the city to recognize MWBEs that are registered with the state as well as those that are city - certified, when awarding contracts.

Allon, the publisher of Manhattan Media, was bluntest, saying «this country, unfortunately, seems to be going away from things like quotas,» but all six were clear that they're in favor of paying greater attention to race and gender when hiring administration officials and awarding city contracts.

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A Mayor Bill de Blasio fundraiser — whose engineering firms have been awarded millions of dollars in city contracts — has been charged with enlisting his employees to donate to the 2013 mayoral election and reimbursing them through end - of - the - year bonuses in a bribery - filled corruption scheme, Manhattan prosecutors said Wednesday.

But putting a damper on the rosy picure painted by the governor are reports, including one in the New York Post, that says US Attorney Preet Bharara is investigating the awarding of state contracts to businesses involved in the Buffalo Billion project, including the massive Solar City factory and other projects, possibly with an eye toward campaign contributions to the governor.

Having said that, and in light of the investigation into the awarding of contracts at the Solar City facility in Buffalo, we hope that New York State and relevant agencies do everything in their power to provide a transparent bidding process,» said Joshua Reap, a government affairs director for the group.

From day care centers to food pantries to senior centers, thousands of nonprofit groups that depend on New York City for their livelihood are bracing for the most ambitious change in a generation as the Bloomberg administration prepares to dismantle the way it awards $ 4 billion in contracts every year.

The city Department of Education has awarded contracts worth up to $ 101 million to the NYC Leadership Academy — but didn't keep track of where the money went, a bombshell audit by City Comptroller Scott Stringer charcity Department of Education has awarded contracts worth up to $ 101 million to the NYC Leadership Academy — but didn't keep track of where the money went, a bombshell audit by City Comptroller Scott Stringer charCity Comptroller Scott Stringer charges.

Its reporting on the Buffalo Billion prompted U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to launch a federal investigation into the awarding of developer contracts and for members of the community to demand more diversity in the employment of construction workers at Solar City.

To that end, he's looking for a change in state law that would allow the city, like the state, to award contracts to MWBEs even if they are not proposed the least expensive qualified bid.

A spokeswoman for the New York City Board of Elections, which awarded the contract, did not return telephone calls and e-mails.

The spokesman also stated that the mayor has set a «bold» goal of awarding 30 percent of city contracts to minority - and women - owned businesses, and that «thousands» of homeless New Yorkers have found affordable homes during his tenure.

Ep 10 - 30 % — Ben Max of GG, Carol Kellerman of CBC, & guest Deputy Mayor Richard Buery discuss the city's goals for awarding contracts to minority - and women - owned businesses and how Buery is leading the effort to reach those goals.

And the deal has been raising eyebrows since June when the Daily News» Rachael Monahan reported that the state Department of Education was about to award a $ 27 million no - bid contract to Wireless Generation to develop a system for the state similar to the city's Achievement Reporting and Innovation System or ARIS.

In Buffalo, the city teachers union broke a 12 - year stalemate with a new contract that awards hefty raises for teachers.

During the campaign, Singas said if elected she would expand a review of the county's contracting system that her office conducted in April, to include towns and cities in an effort to «expose vulnerabilities to corruption» when it comes to municipalities awarding millions of dollars in taxpayer - funded contracts.

Following a competitive request for proposals, the city awarded a lucrative city contract to Conner and a partner in 2010 to deliver lost luggage from the airport.

But the Procurement Policy Board, an obscure agency if ever there was one, has decreed that the competitive bidding rules «shall not apply to contract awards made from line item appropriations and / or discretionary funds to community - based not - for - profit organizations or other public service organizations identified by elected city officials other than the mayor and the controller.»

Another IDC member, Senator Marisol Alcantara, of upper Manhattan, is leading the Senate push on the M / WBE legislation, which would allow the city to award larger contracts to M / WBEs without a competitive bidding process.

State government has utilized design - build to save time and money on big infrastructure projects and New York City wants similar power to streamline the process by awarding one contract for project design and execution, instead of engaging in separate processes and contracts.

Reale said she plans to award the company a contract for up to five years, which she said the city charter allows her to do.

Stringer said the city needed to have «an honest conversation about economic opportunity» and the 4.8 percent of $ 15 billion in contracts awarded to minority and women owned businesses in 2015.