File #: T2025-3367    Version: * Name: Requiring agency corrective action plans for retroactive contract registration.
Type: Introduction Status: Introduced
Committee: Committee on Contracts
On agenda: 4/24/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring agency corrective action plans for retroactive contract registration
Sponsors: Justin L. Brannan, Julie Won, Althea V. Stevens, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would require city agencies to submit annual reports on contract registration during the previous fiscal year. An agency would be required to submit a corrective action plan by January 1 if it: (1) registered 100 or more contracts or contracts valued at over $10 million in the previous fiscal year; and (2) more than 30 percent of its contracts or contract value were registered 90 days or more after their start dates. Such corrective action plans would need to analyze the causes of delays, specify improvements to be made, include implementation timelines, and set performance targets. The city chief procurement officer would be required to submit an annual report to the Mayor and Council analyzing citywide trends in the effectiveness of these corrective action plans.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No., 2. Int. No.

Int. No.

 

By Council Members Brannan, Won, Stevens and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring agency corrective action plans for retroactive contract registration

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 6 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 6-149 to read as follows:

§ 6-149 Agency corrective action plans. a. For purposes of this section, the term "retroactive contract registration" means the registration of any contract by the comptroller on a date that is later than the start date specified in such contract.

b. Beginning October 1, 2025 and each October 1 thereafter, each agency shall submit to the mayor and council an annual report containing the total number and dollar value of contracts registered during the previous fiscal year, including the number and value of retroactive contract registrations.

c. Any agency that has registered 100 or more contracts within the previous fiscal year, or for which the total value of contracts registered in the previous fiscal year exceeded $10 million; and more than 30 percent of contracts registered within the previous fiscal year are retroactive by 90 days or more, or more than 30 percent of the total dollar value of contracts registered within the previous fiscal year is comprised of contracts that are retroactive by 90 days or more, shall submit a corrective action plan to the city chief procurement officer and the council no later than January 1 of the following year containing, at a minimum:

1. An analysis of the causes of registration and payment delays;

2. Specific procedural and operational improvements to be implemented;

3. An implementation timeline for such improvements with relevant milestones; and

4. Performance targets for the subsequent fiscal year.

d. Beginning October 1, 2026, and each October 1 thereafter, the city chief procurement officer shall submit a report to the mayor and the council analyzing citywide trends on the effectiveness of citywide corrective action plans.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.

 

Session 13

ARP

LS # 18016

11/25/24