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Administration responds to Pew report, outlines vendor cooperative and procurement dashboard
Summary
City officials told council they have accelerated contract conformance work, created a Philadelphia Vendor Cooperative to centralize vendor help and will stand up a dashboard with Pew/Bennett Midland for transparency; the administration said the $3.4 billion figure cited in a report refers to total contract value conformed late, not quantified late payments.
Councilmembers pressed the administration about a Pew/Bennett Midland review that found thousands of contracts were conformed after their effective dates and cited a summed contract value that councilmembers characterized as money paid late.
Camille Duchaisse, the chief administrative officer, said the report’s $3.4 billion figure represents the total value of contracts that were conformed late, but that the study did not quantify how much of that sum…
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