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Committee approves addition of vendors to county procurement pools

3327351 · May 15, 2025
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The Miami‑Dade ad hoc committee approved adding 179 vendors to multiple open procurement pools, with procurement staff describing the open, criteria‑based application process and commissioners noting rotational advantages for architects and engineers pools.

The Miami‑Dade County Government Efficiency and Transparency Ad Hoc Committee voted unanimously May 15 to add dozens of vendors to several county procurement pools, a move administration staff said is meant to expand capacity and speed project delivery.

The committee approved item 3A after a briefing from Namira Upal, the county’s Chief Procurement Officer, who said the pools are open, advertised and governed by published criteria and that companies meeting requirements are added to the pools. “All of the pools that we come to the board to for approval for establishment are open pools, and…

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