Sentences with phrase «reviewing state contracts»

That person will be charged with reviewing all state contracts, with an eye towards eliminating any wrongdoing, conflicts of interest or collusion.

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

The comptroller's office stated it plays a critical role in reviewing state contracts to ensure best value of taxpayer dollars.

DeFrancisco's bill would restore power to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office with the ability of reviewing state contracts and procurement for economic development programs.

This person, like the comptroller, will have the ability to review all state contracts and disbursements.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is creating a new position to review state contracts following charges of bid - rigging in state economic development programs.

Groups called for changes such as a «Database of Deals» and the restoration of power to the state comptroller to review state contracts.

Cuomo said he will appoint a chief procurement officer for his own executive branch to review all state contracts — potentially a good idea.

DiNapoli's office is pushing to once again review state contracts for major economic development programs; a power taken away in 2011.

That official will review state contracts «with an eye towards eliminating any wrongdoing, conflicts of interest or collusion,» Cuomo said in an release outlining his plans.»

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Currently, some companies» contracts state that customers are not allowed to post negative reviews on social media or websites like Yelp, otherwise they can seek damages.

In the United States, she is a recovering lawyer (inactive) and consults with other lawyers on Civil Appeals, Civil Litigation, Contract Review, and Litigation Prevention.

The Company has reviewed the latest position and believes that, even if some or all of the additional troops now on standby were to be deployed, the overall losses to be incurred on this contract would remain within the previously stated estimate of # 35m - # 50m.»

If state contracts have to be competitively bid and reviewed by the comptroller's office, what outright discrimination do they think is happening?

The change that also affects CUNY contracts came when Cuomo took office and moved swiftly to accrue more power over state funds and eliminate what he termed «duplicative and wasteful» review of contracts.

Pre-contract review by the State Comptroller of contracts issued by all state entities, including all SUNY, all state non-profits and all state authoriState Comptroller of contracts issued by all state entities, including all SUNY, all state non-profits and all state authoristate entities, including all SUNY, all state non-profits and all state authoristate non-profits and all state authoristate authorities.

Federal and state investigators are reviewing contracts into the Buffalo Billion as well as issues surrounding contracting at SUNY Polytechnic.

His signs loan contracts on behalf of the state, his daughters, brother and nephews have taken over the oil industry, his nephew has been offered of lucrative contract to review all contracts signed under the previous administration, his former wife appointed appointed an ambassador, his «Nigerian in laws» have been offered juicy contracts etc..

Proposed reforms would have restored the Comptroller's independent oversight powers to review contracts before they are finalized, corralled unaccountable, state controlled not - for - profits, and created a «Database of Deals» for billions in state subsidies to businesses.

«The comptroller already reviews most large contracts of state agencies and authorities before they are executed.»

Additional language would be aimed preventing favoritism in contracting by having the chief procurement officer review and examine policies of state agencies and non-profit entities in order to recommend changes.

«The final contract represents a wider than anticipated scope of these tasks, which included sifting through hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, meetings, and other tasks associated with the review of $ 400 million in contractual payments and the development of new, stronger protocols for state agencies,» Empire State Development spokesperson Jason Conwall state agencies,» Empire State Development spokesperson Jason Conwall State Development spokesperson Jason Conwall said.

The comptroller said has office has been concerned that contracts handled through authorities and non-profits set up by the state are not getting enough direct review.

The bill would re-empower the state comptroller, Tom DiNapoli, to review state economic development - related contracts when spending is passed through a SUNY - related entity.

Those changes include empowering Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office to review all SUNY and Office of General Services contracts of more than $ 250,000, block state - affilaited entities from doing business with their boards of directors and creation of a database of deals to show the total value of subsidies and other inducements awarded to businesses as well as provisions for clawing the money back.

«We have been assured by Executive staff that when we receive the contract for review that it will be thorough, complete and contain the necessary documentation that every state agency knows it must include when making multi-million dollar purchases,» Freeman said.

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) issued logistics for the June 22 hearing that will review whether or not Paladino violated school board rules for publicizing information about the teacher contract talks discussed during the board's private executive session.

For example, the Executive proposes to exempt agency contracts from the State Comptroller's review and approval.

Agency attorney Andy Zweben blamed the state's «cumbersome» contract review procedures.

With Albany's transactional politics now the subject of a federal probe, the context of that April 2013 book deal is particularly significant: An International Business Times review of New York state documents reveals that News Corporation gave Cuomo a book contract after Cuomo's administration backed a series of state initiatives that benefited the media giant.

But good - government groups insist there needs to be broader, more independent reforms, including the creation of a database of subsidies published online, empowering the state comptroller to review all contracts worth more than $ 250,000, and ending the awarding of government economic development incentives by SUNY.

At the same time, Cuomo said the state could potentially adjust how it spends economic development money based on the findings of Bart Schwartz, the former prosecutor hired to review contracting in the program, which is under scrutiny by the U.S. attorney's office.

Memos released by Cuomo's office in May sent to top officials at the State University of New York show Schwartz is being given power to review «all decisions» made in Buffalo Billion contracting.

The investigations firm hired by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office to review contracting under the state's economic development programs will be paid as much as $ 450,000, according to a long - awaited contract released on Friday.

«What we might want to do is what any other entity is used to dealing with here in state government, which is admittedly an arduous process but reinstating the comptroller's role and attorney general's role in reviewing all these contracts,» McDonald said.

Touching on the state's claim that the government had no contract with Woyome, Mr Justice Ofoe was emphatic that Woyome's claim was based on the tendering process, which was terminated in 2005, as well as his claim for financial engineering and the concurrent approval for his partners by the Central Tender Review Board (CTRB).

The lawmaker, who represents Dutsin - ma / Kurfi Federal Constituency of Katsina State noted that, «I also think that the NNPC GMD was right when he said that there was no law requiring him to review or discuss with the minister of state or the NNPC board, matters relating to the approval of contrState noted that, «I also think that the NNPC GMD was right when he said that there was no law requiring him to review or discuss with the minister of state or the NNPC board, matters relating to the approval of contrstate or the NNPC board, matters relating to the approval of contracts.

Certain state contracts are typically reviewed by both the attorney general's and comptroller's offices.

In 2011 Cuomo and the legislature passed a law to stop the state comptroller from reviewing contracts for economic development projects that are now the focus of a federal probe by Bharara's office.

Cuomo also placed former federal prosecutor Bart Schwartz in charge of an internal «review» of state contracts, provoking speculation that he was hoping to head off Bharara's probe.

They want the comptroller to be able to review and approve all state contracts and to limit campaign contributions by any company or person seeking a state contract.

A Newsday review of campaign contributors who donated $ 50,000 or more between 2010 and 2015 found that more than 30 construction and development companies, subsidiaries, their executives and their relatives have contributed nearly $ 4 million to Cuomo's campaigns while the companies received $ 1 billion in state contracts, tax breaks and other benefits.

Referring specifically to the state construction projects Newsday reviewed, Azzopardi said, «The largest portion of the contracts you are referencing are publicly bid and vetted by the offices of the attorney general, the comptroller and in many cases federal transportation officials.

Empire State Development, the state's primary business development agency, received board approval last month to enter into a two - year contract with Manhattan - based firm AKRF to provide environmental review support to the Belmont winning develState Development, the state's primary business development agency, received board approval last month to enter into a two - year contract with Manhattan - based firm AKRF to provide environmental review support to the Belmont winning develstate's primary business development agency, received board approval last month to enter into a two - year contract with Manhattan - based firm AKRF to provide environmental review support to the Belmont winning developer.

DeFrancisco said another item he would like to see pass is procurement reform so the state comptroller can review the contracts of the state's economic development projects before they are signed.

The comptroller is barred by the Cuomo administration from auditing or reviewing records of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute - related management company that negotiates the contracts for the Buffalo Billion and other SUNY Poly high - tech projects across the state.

After a federal indictment charged state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son with improperly influencing the county's awarding of a $ 12 million wastewater treatment contract, Singas responded by reviewing Nassau's entire contracting process.

He said he would review «all grants and approvals» of contracts and operations of the Buffalo Billion and other high - tech development programs across the state.

Lately, the governor and his aides have portrayed Schwartz's role as more limited, saying that he will essentially just review contracts and documents that are already public, including any deals that result from a recent state allocation of $ 485 million to the Buffalo Billion's SolarCity factory project.

The Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have over the past 2 1/2 years received taxpayer - financed contracts to help manage the sale of more than $ 3 billion worth of bonds for New York state, according to a review of state records by International Business Times.