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.
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.
"Item number 41 has been withdrawn" — meeting transcript (unofficial)
Results pending - the transcript was not clear enough to call this one. The official minutes will settle it.
What got said
- Withdrawn before the vote