In plain language — from the agenda backup

The Council is being asked to set up a roster of seventeen consulting firms — names you might recognize like McKinsey, Ernst & Young, and Boston Consulting Group — that any City department could tap for strategic planning, organizational improvement, and performance work. The contracts would run an initial three years with up to two one-year extensions, capped at a combined $7,500,000 split among the firms. For now, $500,000 is available across departments' operating budgets, with the rest dependent on future budgets.

The official agenda language

Authorize seventeen contracts for consulting services including strategic planning and guidance involving advanced organizational improvement, shared services evaluation, and performance initiatives for all City departments with AECOM Technical Services Inc.; Anthro-Tech, Inc.; Arup US, Inc.; Ascendant Innovation LLC; Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP; Berry Dunn McNeil & Parker, LLC; Dillon Morgan Consulting Inc.; Eagle Hill Consulting LLC; Ernst and Young U.S., LLP; Guidehouse Inc.; McKinsey & Company, Inc. Washington D.C.; Protiviti Inc.; Rifeline, LLC; Ryan G Hunter Consulting LLC; Social Finance Inc.; The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.; and Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P., for an initial term of three years with up to two one-year extension options in an amount not to exceed $7,500,000, divided among the contractors. Funding: $500,000 is available in the Operating Budgets of all City departments. Funding for the remaining contract term is contingent upon available funding in future budgets.

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