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Committee approves payment to street-sweeping vendor, seeks vendor-management fixes
Summary
The Providence City Committee on Finance approved payment of $64,305.50 to ABLE Industrial Solutions for street sweeping services provided after a prior contract expired and urged the city to implement a vendor-management system and to produce the new contract for review.
The Providence City Committee on Finance voted Sept. 25 to approve a resolution authorizing payment to ABLE Industrial Solutions for previously rendered street-sweeping services and to examine procurement and vendor-management practices following lapse of an earlier contract.
Staff told the committee that a contract for nighttime street sweeping had expired in July and that, while a new contract had not yet been fully in place, the vendor continued to perform sweeping services. The director (name not specified in the transcript) said she ordered staff to stop the service once she realized there was no active contract but that…
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