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File #: 2024-1299    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 12/6/2024 In control: Committee on Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs
On agenda: 12/10/2024 Final action: 12/17/2024
Enactment date: 12/17/2024 Enactment #: 942
Effective date: 12/18/2024    
Title: Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with MGT Impact Solutions, LLC for services relating to conducting a business disparity causation analysis and economic impact analysis study on behalf of the Pittsburgh Regional Disparity Study Consortium, comprised of the City of Pittsburgh, the County of Allegheny, the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP), the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), the Parking Authority, Pittsburgh Water, and the Stadium Authority, to ensure that minority-owned, woman-owned ("MWBEs"), and LGBTQ-owned (LGBTQBE) businesses are afforded equitable opportunities to participate in local government and other contracts within our region for a sum not to exceed One Million One Hundred Fifty-One Thousand Five Hundred Ninety Dollars and Zero Cents ($1,151,590.00).
Indexes: AGREEMENTS
Attachments: 1. 2024-1299 Cover Letter-Disparity Study - Council Letter (2)-wavier of rule 8, 2. 2024-1299-approval letter, 3. 2024-1299-Synopsis No. 2412-01, 4. Summary 2024-1299

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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with MGT Impact Solutions, LLC for services relating to conducting a business disparity causation analysis and economic impact analysis study on behalf of the Pittsburgh Regional Disparity Study Consortium, comprised of the City of Pittsburgh, the County of Allegheny, the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP), the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), the Parking Authority, Pittsburgh Water, and the Stadium Authority, to ensure that minority-owned, woman-owned (“MWBEs”), and LGBTQ-owned (LGBTQBE) businesses are afforded equitable opportunities to participate in local government and other contracts within our region for a sum not to exceed One Million One Hundred Fifty-One Thousand Five Hundred Ninety Dollars and Zero Cents ($1,151,590.00).

 

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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

 

Section 1.                     The Mayor and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, are hereby authorized to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with MGT Impact Solutions, LLC for services relating to conducting a business disparity causation analysis and economic impact analysis study on behalf of the Pittsburgh Regional Disparity Study Consortium, comprised of the City of Pittsburgh, the County of Allegheny, the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP), the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), the Parking Authority, Pittsburgh Water, and the Stadium Authority, to ensure that minority-owned, woman-owned (“MWBEs”), and LGBTQ-owned (LGBTQBE) businesses are afforded equitable opportunities to participate in local government and other contracts within our region. Study Consortium members are keenly interested in ensuring that their public contracting and purchasing funds are not spent in a manner that in any way contributes to or perpetuates the effects of marketplace discrimination for a sum not to exceed One Million One Hundred Fifty-One Thousand Five Hundred Ninety Dollars and Zero Cents ($1,151,590.00).

 

Funds shall be paid from the following JDE accounts:

 

$330,040.00 - JDE Account String: 11101.102000.53.53901.2024

$630,000.00 - JDE Account String: 11101.102000.53.53901.2025

$191,550.00 - JDE Account String: 11101.102000.53.53901.2026

 

Section 2.                     Said Agreement or Agreements shall be approved by the City Solicitor as to form.