Procurement
Education (NYCDOE)
Contracts and Purchasing
65 Court Street, Room 1201, Brooklyn, NY 11201
VENDOR HOTLINE
phone: 7189354641
email: vendorhotline@schools.nyc.gov
phone: 7189354641
email: vendorhotline@schools.nyc.gov
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2/7/2014
Intent to Award
PIN#E1698040 Due:
The New York City Department of Education (DOE) strives to give all businesses, including Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (MWBEs), an equal opportunity to compete for DOE procurements. The DOE’s mission is to provide equal access to procurement opportunities for all qualified vendors, including MWBEs, from all segments of the community. The DOE works to enhance the ability of MWBEs to compete for contracts. DOE is committed to ensuring that MWBEs fully participate in the procurement process.
Description
The Department of Education (DOE), Division of Contracts and Purchasing, has been asked for approval to enter into a contract with Esteban Tabek and Oliver Buhler for a term of 12/01/2013 through 11/30/14, at a total contract cost of $30,000 for each person, to provide algorithm analysis of school bus transportation bids that takes into account bid price and capacity of the bidders as determined by the Office of Pupil Transportation. The analysis will guide the department to maximize low priced bidders to their greatest capacity for the following RFB’s covering K-12 special and general education transportation services: B2319, B2321, and B2394. The DOE does not have personnel with the expertise to work with such an algorithm. Due to time constraints it is necessary to utilize a negotiated service to procure these services. Mr. Tabek and Mr. Buhler are mathematicians for NYU’s Courant Institute. They successfully provided similar services to the DOE for a previous set of bus procurements. Other organizations interested in providing these services to the DOE in the future are invited to indicate their ability to do so in writing to Peter M. Frey, NYC Department of Education, 65 Court Street, Room 1301, Brooklyn, New York 11201 or pfrey@schools.nyc.gov . Responses should be received no later than Wednesday February 12, 2014.