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State Contract and Payment Actions in November

December 29, 2021

In November, the Office of the State Comptroller approved 1,460 contracts for state agencies and public authorities valued at $2.5 billion and approved nearly 2.3 million payments worth more than $10.5 billion. The Office rejected 119 contracts and related transactions valued at $160.8 million and nearly 5,700 payments valued at more than $8.3 million, primarily for mistakes, insufficient support for charges, and improper payments. More information on these contracts and payments is available at Open Book New York.

Major Contracts Approved

Executive Chamber

  • $5.1 million with Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP for legal services.
  • $2.5 million with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP for legal services.

Office of General Services - Design & Construction

  • $6.9 million with Fratello Construction Corp. to rehabilitate the Bronx Armory in Bronx County.
  • $5 million with Burns Bros. Contractors LLC to provide a direct digital control energy management system at Riverview Correctional Facility in St. Lawrence County.
  • $2 million with Bunkoff General Contractors Inc. to rehabilitate bathrooms at the Hudson Correctional Facility in Columbia County.

Department of Health

  • $154.5 million for the staffing of COVID-19 vaccination and testing sites including $137.3 million with Essey LLC and $17.2 million with Westchester County Health Care Corp.
  • $20.8 million with Quest Diagnostics Inc. for state employee COVID-19 testing.

State University of New York

  • $7.6 million with All-Con Contracting Corp. for rehabilitation of Knapp Hall at SUNY Farmingdale.
  • $1.2 million with Dixon Schwabl Advertising Inc. for media planning and buying services at SUNY Brockport.

Department of Transportation

  • $71.4 million with Peter Scalamandre & Sons Inc. for safety and mobility improvements on Route 347 in Suffolk County.
  • $29.5 million with Perfetto Contracting Company, Inc. for ramp realignment and new off-ramp construction on the I-95/Pelham Parkway interchange in Bronx County.
  • $18.2 million with Cold Spring Construction Co. for pavement resurfacing and six bridge deck replacements on Routes 390 and 104 in Monroe County.
  • $7.9 million with Callanan Industries Inc. for paving along Routes 32, 199 and 209 in Ulster County.
  • $5.4 million with Rifenburg Construction Inc. for intersection safety enhancements and reconstruction in Albany and Schenectady counties.
  • $4.1 million with WSP USA Inc. for construction inspection services on the Long Island Expressway in Queens County.
  • $1.3 million with Twin Tier Constructors Inc. for bridge deck replacement on Route 415 over Cohocton River in Steuben County.

Major Payments Approved

Tax Refunds and Credits

  • $646.3 million for 166,389 personal income tax refunds.
  • $297.3 million for 19,744 corporate and other tax refunds.
  • $5.8 million for 7,150 property tax credits.

New York State Office of the Attorney General

  • $802,000 to Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP for legal services.

Office of Children and Family Services

  • $135.3 million under the Child Care Stabilization Grant.
  • $5.1 million to childcare providers for the Essential Worker Scholarship grant program to provide care for children of essential workers.

City University of New York

  • $1.9 million to support the COVID-19 pandemic response including computer equipment and cleaning supplies and materials.

Department of Civil Service

  • $295.2 million to CVS Caremark to provide pharmacy benefit services for the Empire, Excelsior and Student Employee Health plans.
  • $36.1 million to Beacon Health Options Inc. for benefit services for the Mental Health & Substance Abuse Program for the Empire Plan.

State Education Department

  • $1 billion in general aid to 462 school districts.
  • $1.6 million in excess cost aid for school-aged special education students to three school districts.

Empire State Development Corporation

  • $207.5 million for the Small Business Recovery Grant Program.
  • $6 million to Onondaga County for regional economic development projects in central New York.
  • $2.7 million to the University of Rochester for a portion of the cost of research and development operations and salaries for faculty and staff of the Rochester Data Science Consortium.
  • $2 million to the Utica Harbor Point Development Corporation for a portion of the construction and renovation costs of the Utica Harbor Point bulkheads.
  • $1.5 million to Adirondack North Country Sports Council for a portion of the cost of working capital expenditures for improvements to support the 2023 Winter World University Games.
  • $1.5 million to the Saranac Lake Civic Center, Inc. for a portion of the design, engineering, construction, furniture and equipment costs to upgrade the Saranac Lake Civic Center to support the Center’s hosting commitments for the 2023 Winter World University Games.
  • $1 million for JMA Tech Properties LLC for a portion of the costs for building renovation and purchase of machinery and equipment for 5G manufacturing facilities in Onondaga County.

Gaming Commission

  • $11.3 million for gaming revenue distributions from the Tioga Downs, Rivers, Montreign and Del Lago casinos to 26 local governments.
  • $8.1 million for tribal-state compact payments to Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, and Otsego counties.

Office of General Services

  • $9.8 million for hourly-based IT services, including $2.1 million to Knowledge Builders Inc., $1.2 million to MVP Consulting Plus Inc., and $6.5 million to 30 other vendors.

Department of Health

  • $32.6 million to support the COVID-19 pandemic response including ambulance services, applications development, call centers and temporary staffing services.
  • $29.8 million to Maximus Inc. for assistance with the Health Benefit Exchange, including insurance enrollment and call center operations.

Department of Labor

  • $275 million for payments under the Unemployment Insurance, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation, and Lost Wages Assistance programs.
  • $1.4 million for the Excluded Workers Fund program.

Office of Mental Health

  • $1.1 million to support the COVID-19 pandemic response, including temporary staffing services.

State University of New York

  • $3.4 million to support the COVID-19 pandemic response, including administrative and clerical services and laboratory and medical supplies and materials.

Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance

  • $146.6 million for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program.
  • $19.6 million for the Landlord Rental Assistance Program.

Other Payment Rejections and Other Cost Recoveries

OSC rejected tax refunds and credits valued at more than $1.8 million. The Comptroller’s auditors also recovered more than $62,000 from vendors owing debts to the state and held payments of nearly $253,000 pending resolution of disputes between subcontractors and prime contractors.

Cumulatively through November for calendar year 2021, the Comptroller’s office has approved 15,590 contracts valued at $165.9 billion and has approved more than more than 173.3 million payments worth more than $185 billion, including more than 154.5 million unemployment insurance payments valued at nearly $43.9 billion. The office has rejected 1,435 contracts and related transactions valued at $5.6 billion and nearly 223,400 payments valued at nearly $270.5 million primarily due to errors, improprieties or lack of documentation.

Track state and local government spending at Open Book New York. Under State Comptroller DiNapoli’s open data initiative, search millions of state and local government financial records, track state contracts, and find commonly requested data.