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Opportunity Review Commission approves housing authority answering-services contract and multi-prime task-order pool
Summary
The Opportunity Review Commission on April 20 approved a $102,000 professional services contract for authority-wide answering services with New Orleans Teletransport and authorized a $5.7 million task-order rotation among six prime contractors; commissioners asked staff for greater MBE/WBE breakdowns for future RFPs.
The Opportunity Review Commission on April 20 approved two housing authority procurement plans: a $102,000 professional services contract for authority-wide answering services with New Orleans Teletransport and a plan to rotate work under a $5.7 million task-order pool among six prime contractors.
The actions matter because commissioners said the procurements aim to distribute work among local subcontractors and to meet the city's MBE/WBE participation goals. Commissioner Barnett pressed staff for finer detail on how MBE and WBE participation would be tracked in task orders.
Rick (housing authority representative) presented the answering-services contract, describing it as "a professional services contract, for a hundred and 2,000." He said New Orleans Teletransport was…
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