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Community leaders urge OCII to make parks/streetscape RFP accessible to Bayview Hunters Point small businesses
Summary
OCII presented an RFP to manage parks, streetscapes and a site office in Hunters Point Shipyard Phase 1. Community members and commissioners pushed back on a bundled scope that may disadvantage small local firms and urged mandatory networking, certification help, and resident participation in selection panels.
OCII staff outlined an RFP to procure parks, streetscape and property‑management services for the Hilltop neighborhood in Hunters Point Shipyard Phase 1 at the Sept. 19 meeting. The agency proposed a single, bundled contract covering roughly 18 acres of parks, 12,000 linear feet of streetscape, and a 5,000 square‑foot site office, to be funded by the Community Facilities District.
Staff emphasized workforce and contracting goals: 50% SBE participation and a 50% local hiring target, with first consideration for Bayview Hunters Point residents and businesses in ZIP codes 94124, 94134 and 94107. A mandatory pre‑submission meeting and contractor networking session are planned to encourage contracting teams and joint ventures. Jonathan Plowman said the RFP would be released Sept. 20 with proposals due Nov. 20 and selection in early 2018.
However, several local business owners and residents asked OCII to break the scope into smaller procurement packages. Eloise Patton, a lifelong Bayview resident, said bundling the work could favor larger firms already managing similar work in Mission Bay and exclude small local companies that have either maintenance skills or administrative capacity but not both. "By not breaking up the RFP, it seems to me it's written for folks who already do this work elsewhere," she said.
Other commenters, including shipyard homeowners and community advocates, urged more hands‑on outreach, use of community organizers, evening or alternate sessions for mandatory networking so small businesses can attend, and inclusion of local residents on evaluation panels. Staff and contract compliance representatives said they will provide small‑business outreach, CMD (Contract Monitoring Division) support for certification at the pre‑submission session, and score proposals in part on SBE and workforce performance.
OCII staff committed to follow up with targeted outreach to neighborhood organizations and to provide technical assistance to firms seeking certification; they said the mandatory networking session is intended to help potential prime‑sub teams form and that scoring will favor proposals with stronger SBE and local hiring plans.
