Notice Details

The NYC Department of Correction (DOC) is currently accepting cash deposits for inmates’ commissary purchases, telephone calls and other expenses that can be paid from inmates’ accounts at three DOC locations (Rikers Island, Manhattan Detention Center and the Vernon C. Bain Center in the Bronx), and will continue to do so. However, the DOC is seeking expressions of interest from one or more “money transfer agents” who could accept from inmates’ friends and family one or more of the following types of deposits to be deposited into inmate accounts: cash, check, money order, and/or credit/debit cards. The DOC envisions that deposits could be made in-person (at an agent’s storefront), on the internet, on the phone or at a kiosk located at the DOC sites currently accepting cash deposits. Each money transfer agent would set its own fees, which would be borne entirely by the depositor with no remuneration to the DOC or the City of New York. The DOC would expect that all funds be guaranteed and that the agent(s) would provide transfer information at a minimum at least daily. The DOC would designate the bank to which the money transfer must be made.

To express interest in participating in this program, please send or email information describing your proposed participation to Victoria A. Nugent, Agency Chief Contracting Officer, 17 Battery Place, 4th Floor, NY, NY 10004, or by email to DOCACCO@DOC.NYC.GOV. All information should be received no later than February 28, 2007. All interested parties will be contacted should the DOC determine that it is interested in pursuing this program.