NYC Public School Parents: Looking for volunteers for a Citizen's Oversight Committee on DOE wasteful contracts

NYC Public School Parents: Looking for volunteers for a Citizen's Oversight Committee on DOE wasteful contracts:

Looking for volunteers for a Citizen's Oversight Committee on DOE wasteful contracts

As part of the reforms promised after the scandal with the $1.1 billion Computer Specialists contract erupted, DOE officials  promised to post more complete information about proposed contracts (called the RA's) at least a month ahead of the Panel for Educational Policy vote, to allow for more public vetting.

The DOE contract page now includes more  information about these contracts as well as some brief information about contracts to be voted on in March and April.

http://schools.nyc.gov/AboutUs/leadership/PEP/documents/Contracts/default.htm

• February 24, 2016 Agenda - a 4 page list of  contracts to be voted on at the Feb. 24 PEP  - items #1 through #20, including many multi-million dollar professional development contracts.

• February 24, 2016 Look Ahead for February 24, 2016 Meeting  - a 2 page document showing which categories of contracts the above list of contracts belong to - competitive sealed bid, vs. RFP, vs. Multiple task award contract process etc

• February 24, 2016 Look Ahead for Future Meetings - a 5 page document with brief descriptions of contracts to be voted on March 23 and April 20,  2016.

• February 24, 2016 RA's - the full 55 page document that describes in more detail contracts that will be voted on Feb. 24 and that Patrick Sullivan posted online so that people can comment on them individually and as a whole at  http://nycpublicschoolcontracts.blogspot.com/

Because there will be  many pages of information made available in advance, we are looking to crowd source comments from volunteers as part of a Citizen Oversight Committee -- to help screen and vet these contracts and glean information and concerns that could then be communicated to elected officials and members of the PEP.  Yet as you will see, some of thee contracts to be voted on in two weeks, especially those related to preK vendors, still lack critical information.

There is also a new document, highlighting changes in DOE procurement, which will be voted on at the Feb. 24 PEP as well posted here.  We NYC Public School Parents: Looking for volunteers for a Citizen's Oversight Committee on DOE wasteful contracts: