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Speaker says City Council moved to curb emergency no-bid contracts after citing $432 million asylum-services deal
Summary
An unidentified speaker told the New York City Council that it has moved to limit emergency no-bid contracts and increase oversight after citing a $432,000,000 contract awarded to a company called Dot go to provide food and housing for asylum seekers; the transcript provides no bill number or vote tallies.
An unidentified speaker told the New York City Council that the body has acted to curb emergency no-bid contracts, saying the city will limit how long such contracts can run and impose more oversight.
"For too long, billions of dollars of taxpayer money have been wasted on emergency no bid contracts," the speaker said, adding that during "moments of upheaval like the pandemic or the asylum seeker crisis, the city spent billions of dollars in these contracts with little oversight." The speaker named a…
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