Open-Ended Professional Services Contracts Add 27 Unspecified New Vendors.

• Open-ended professional services contracts allow vendors to provide on-call professional services for work orders estimated to cost $100,000 or less.
• The program’s goal is to enable City departments to contract services on a rolling basis without seeking Council approval for each request.
• Services include architecture, interior design, and historic consulting, among others.
• New vendors will be added to the program on a rolling basis, but any new additions will require Council approval.
• No list of vendors was included in the legislation. Informup was unable to find a list of approved vendors. we reached out to council for a list of vendors that were approved, but we have not received a response by the time of publication.
• Councilperson Charland expressed concern that the “fairly self-governing” system of distributing work could lead departments to overlook minority contractors.

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