Integrity Monitor Program

In 1996, DOI created its Integrity Monitoring Program, also known as the Independent Private Sector Inspector General program, which establishes a method to permit the City to enter into or continue contracts with City vendors that might otherwise be precluded from doing business with the City due to integrity issues. Under the Integrity Monitor Program, these vendors may be awarded City contracts if they agree to pay for and be monitored by an outside, independent integrity monitor that reports to DOI, and to take other steps to ensure they have the requisite business integrity. For example, vendors may be required to adopt and implement a Code of Ethics, an ethics training program for employees, or to submit periodic certifications to DOI concerning the business responsibility of the company and its subcontractors. Integrity monitorships are tailored to the integrity issues associated with that particular vendor.

Integrity monitors are an individual or entity with legal, auditing, investigative, and other skills, designated by the City to help the City monitor the activity of specified City vendors, as well as help the vendors reform their business practices so they can be considered for City contracts in the future or continue with a contract in progress, if a City agency notes that it must do so for specific reasons, such as the vendor providing critical or specialized services that cannot easily be found elsewhere.

In addition to monitoring specific vendors, DOI has also appointed integrity monitors to proactively help the City oversee integrity issues on large-scale City projects, such as post-Hurricane Sandy rebuilding, which was funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and both the Asylum Seeker Initiative and the Borough-Based Jails construction project for which DOI was provided City funds and retained monitors. The goal of these programmatic monitorships is to create a culture of compliance on City projects and prevent or reduce fraud, waste and abuse in real time, resulting in cost savings to the City.

If you are interested in providing integrity monitoring services to DOI, you are encouraged to review the Request for Expressions of Interest for Appointment as an Integrity Monitor and to submit an Integrity Monitor Statement of Qualifications Form, both found below.  Applications are accepted on a continual basis. You may also call DOI’s Vendor Integrity Unit at (212) 825-5918 for more information.

 
Request for Expressions of Interest for Appointment as an Integrity Monitor

Integrity Monitor Statement of Qualifications Form