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Controller finds gaps in Public Works contracting, recommends tighter procurement and ethics controls
Summary
The city controller's preliminary assessment identified weaknesses in Public Works procurement, limited external oversight and uneven use of competitive solicitation, and recommended central oversight, revised procurement procedures for homelessness projects and closing gift-reporting loopholes. The Ethics Commission pledged to work on fixes and training.
The San Francisco controller's office presented a preliminary assessment on June 29 that flagged systemic weaknesses in the Department of Public Works's contracting and recommended a mix of administrative and legal fixes.
The report, summarized to the Ethics Commission by Mark De La Rosa, acting director of audits, said Public Works let 366 contracts from 2017 through 2020 totaling about $1.4 billion, and that a subset of contracts tied to homelessness projects were awarded under a waiver provision of the administrative code without documented selection processes. "For public works alone there were 15 contracts that fell under these categories of projects addressing homelessness that totaled $24,600,000," De La Rosa said, and staff could not find documentation for selection in many cases.
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