December 12, 2022
Guillermo Chacón Will Serve as New Chair
PPB Members Tasked With Establishing Rules Governing Procurement of Goods, Services, and Construction by NYC
NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams in the present day introduced the appointment of three new members to the Procurement Policy Board (PPB). The mayor named Guillermo Chacón as chair and Allison Stoddart and Wayne Lambert as new members to the board.
The PPB is liable for promulgating guidelines and rules for the procurement of products, providers, and development by the City of New York. The new appointees will help in driving procurement reform and amplifying the PPB’s mission to simplify, make clear, and modernize the town’s procurement system. Reducing purple tape and selling equitable procurement — particularly for the town’s minority- and women-owned enterprises (M/WBEs) — proceed to be key priorities for the Adams administration.
“Procurement policy may seem like an opaque issue — but this is how the city builds, delivers critical services, and so much more,” stated Mayor Adams. “Even before I took office, we made clear that we would prioritize reforming procurement for our nonprofits, and through our Capital Process Reform Task Force, we are poised to significantly improve capital project delivery. These three new appointees will carry forward the mandate of ‘Getting Stuff Done’ and ensuring our procurement process is transparent, equitable, and accountable.”
“The reality is without procurement, New York City would not be able to provide New Yorkers with the quality of life they deserve,” stated Mayor’s Office of Contract Services Director Lisa Flores. “How we procure goods and services, and the organizations we contract with, represent our city’s values and the work we put into realizing them. The PPB is tasked with the great responsibility to ensure the rules that govern how to do business with the city upholds the value we place on diversity and equity. This year’s PPB appointees mirror our city’s diversity — representing various professions and ethnic backgrounds. Congratulations to the appointees and thank you to Mayor Adams for his continued commitment to elevating the standard by which we conduct business.”
Reforming New York City’s damaged procurement system has been a prime focus since day one of many Adams administration. The administration’s dedication to rid the town’s procurement technique of decades-old bureaucratic hurdles and outdated enterprise practices led to the creation of the Joint Task Force to Get Nonprofits Paid on Time and the Capital Process Reform Task Force. The suggestions introduced forth by these initiatives have confirmed instrumental in reforming the town’s procurement course of — as evident by the greater than $4.2 billion in contractual {dollars} unlocked via the “Clear the Backlog” initiative, a key advice of the Joint Task Force to Get Nonprofits Paid on Time. The suggestions of the 2 activity forces made it clear that accountability, fairness and equity, transparency, and effectivity needs to be the main focus of procurement reform. The present procurement guidelines and insurance policies are scheduled to be reviewed and up to date by the PPB to make sure the suggestions of the 2 activity forces are applied.
“I am honored and humbled for this appointment by Mayor Eric Adams to serve on the Procurement Policy Board for our great city,” stated Guillermo Chacón, chair, Procurement Policy Board. “I will bring my commitment and dedication, and I will give my best for this important appointment as chair for the PPB.”
The PPB is scheduled to meet on December 15, 2022, to assessment new legislative modifications to metropolis procurement and talk about modifications to the prevailing guidelines and insurance policies.
Guillermo Chacón, chair
Since 2010, Guillermo Chacón has served as president of the Latino Commission on AIDS, and he’s the founding father of the Hispanic Health Network, the place he’s a vocal advocate on the persistent well being circumstances and well being disparities affecting Hispanic/Latinx communities.
In July 2021, Chacón was appointed by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra to serve on the United States Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA).
He additionally serves on the steering committee of the National Hispanic/Latinx Health Leadership Network; on the boards of the New York Immigration Coalition and New York City AIDS Memorial; as an advisor for Alianza Americas and AIDSVu.org; and as co-chair of the Latino Jewish Coalition in New York. He is a graduate of the National University of El Salvador.
Allison Stoddart
Allison Stoddart is the chief of workers for the chief counsel to the mayor and City Hall. Stoddart was appointed in January 2022, firstly of the Adams administration, and works intently with the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services.
Before coming to City Hall, she was counsel at WilmerHale, the place she suggested purchasers on securities investigations and white-collar protection issues.
Stoddart beforehand served as a regulation clerk for the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Boston College Law School.
Wayne Lambert
Wayne Lambert is the director of provider variety at Turner & Townsend and leads the agency’s efforts to improve its provider variety program and develop the availability chain to create contract and capacity-building alternatives for various companies, together with minority- and women-owned companies and small companies. Lambert works with private and non-private sector purchasers and supplies assist to meet utilization targets, amongst different inside and exterior efforts within the space of variety.
Previously, Lambert labored within the public sector, the place he had over 15 years of expertise in provider and workforce variety, spending time within the New York City Mayor’s Office of Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises as deputy director of packages; as chief variety and business relations officer with the New York City Department of Design and Construction; main M/WBE efforts and supporting well being fairness initiatives on the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; and dealing on the New York City Department of Small Business Services, the place he related over 10,000 small companies to private and non-private sector alternatives.
Lambert is a graduate of the City College of New York and the Baruch College Zicklin School of Business.
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