READER'S GUIDE

CROL is posted each business day and includes notices of proposed New York City procurement actions, contract awards, and other procurement-related information. Solicitation notices for most procurements valued at or above $100,000 for information technology and for construction and construction-related services, above $50,000 for other services, and above $25,000 for other goods are published for at least one day. Other types of procurements, such as sole source, require notice in The City Record for five consecutive days. Unless otherwise specified, the agencies and offices listed are open for business Mondays through Fridays, from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., except legal holidays.

HOW TO READ PROCUREMENT NOTICES

Procurement Notices in CROL are arranged by types of goods or services to be purchased. Notices appear from the date they are posted (normally the day before publication in the printed City Record) until the date the bid/proposal is due. The name of the agency seeking goods or services is listed as well as necessary contact information. The specific contact is listed for each solicitation. You may also consult the MOC/ACCO list from this site for additional contacts. The notices include many abbreviations and acronyms which are defined on the abbreviations link on our home page.

SELLING TO NYC

NYC.GOV includes information about the many resources available for vendors who want to do business with the City of New York. Visit the Selling to New York City for bidder list applications; business opportunity programs; prequalified lists; Procurement Policy Board Rules as well as the non-Mayoral agencies that are not subject to those rules; prompt payment; the public access center and the vendor information manual.

OFFICIAL NOTICE TO ALL NEW YORK CITY CONTRACTORS

The New York State Constitution ensures that all laborers, workers or mechanics employed by a contractor or subcontractor doing public work are to be paid the same wage rate that prevails in the trade where the public work is being done.  Additionally, New York State Labor Law §§ 220 and 230 provide that a contractor or subcontractor doing public work in construction or building service must pay its employees no less than the prevailing wage. Section 6-109 (the Living Wage Law) of the New York City Administrative Code also provides for a “living wage”, as well as prevailing wage, to be paid to workers employed by City contractors in certain occupations.  The Comptroller of the City of New York is mandated to enforce prevailing wage. Contact the NYC Comptrollers Office at www.comptroller.nyc.gov, click on Labor Law Schedules to view rates.

New York City's "Burma Law" (Local Law No. 33 of 1997) No Longer to be Enforced. In light of the United States Supreme Court's decision in Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council, 530 U.S. 363 (2000), the City has determined that New York City's Local Law No. 33 of 1997 (codified in Administrative Code Section 6-115 and Charter Section 1524), which restricts City business with banks and companies doing business in Burma, is unconstitutional. This is to advise, therefore, that the language relating to Burma contained in existing New York City contracts may not be enforced.

VENDOR ENROLLMENT APPLICATION

New York City procures approximately $7 billion worth of goods, services, construction and construction-related services every year. The NYC Procurement Policy Board Rules require that agencies primarily solicit from established mailing lists called bidder/proposer lists. To register for these lists--free of charge--prospective suppliers should fill out and submit the NYC-FMS Vendor Enrollment application.

• Online at NYC.gov/selltonyc
• To request a hardcopy application, call the Vendor Enrollment Center
  at 212-857-1680.

Attention Existing Suppliers:
Even if you already do business with NYC agencies, be sure to fill out an application. We are switching over to citywide, centralized Bidders Lists instead of the agency-specific lists previously used to issue notices about upcoming contract opportunities. To continue receiving notices of New York City contract opportunities you must fill out and submit a NYC-FMS Vendor Enrollment application.
If you are uncertain whether you have already submitted an application, call us at 212/857-1680.

PREQUALIFIED LIST

New York City procurement policy permits agencies to develop and solicit from prequalified lists of vendors, under prescribed circumstance. When it is decided by an agency to develop a prequalified list, criteria for prequalification must be clearly explained in the solicitation and notice of the opportunity to prequalify for that solicitation must be published in at least five issues of the CR. Information and qualification questionnaires for inclusion on such list may be obtained directly from the Agency Chief Contracting Officer at each agency, (see Vendor Information Manual). A completed qualification Questioner may be submitted to the Chief Contracting Officer at any time, unless otherwise indicated and action (approval or denial) shall be taken by the agency within 90 days from the date of submission. Any denial or revocation of prequalified status can be appealed to the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearing (OATH) Section 3-11 of the Procurement Policy Board Rules describes the criteria for the general use of prequalified lists.