Office of the City Clerk - Record #: F2023-13

• Record #: F2023-13
• Type: Report
• Status: Placed on File
• Intro date: 3/15/2023
• Final action: 3/15/2023
• Title: Inspector General's report on Implementation of Recommendations of Procurement Reform Task Force
• Sponsors: Dept./Agency
• Topic: CITY DEPARTMENTS/AGENCIES - Inspector General, - REPORTS - Miscellaneous

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
3/15/2023	60745	City Council	Placed on File

Table of Contents
11 Executive Summary|910|II | Background|910|III | Implementation of PRTF's Recommendations|910|IV | Incomplete PRTF Recommendations 10
A | Recommendation 7 10
B | Recommendation 19 11
C| Recommendation 28 12
V | Conclusion 12
Appendix A 14I | Executive Summary
In 2015, the Chicago Procurement Reform Task Force (PRTF), comprised of the City of Chicago and a number of its sister agencies, undertook a six-month project to identify opportunities for local governmental entities to implement best practices for public contracting. PRTF reported its findings and made 31 recommendations. Pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement (IGA), the entities involved (collectively, the Participating Members) launched a responsive reform process. Over the past seven years, they have completed work on 28 of the 31 recommendations made by PRFT. The three recommendations which have not been implemented were critical to PRTF's mission and goals: to create a single website providing contracting information and guidance from all Participating Members; adopt best practices for routine audits of procurement processes, ideally using shared services to that end; and implement a universal procurement system—a single point of entry for posting and responding to all Participating Members' contacting opportunities.
In November 2022, a committee comprising Chief Procurement Officers of the involved agencies (CPO Committee) issued a "Close-Out and Status Report" announcing the termination of the PRTF project. Regarding the three incomplete recommendations: (1) the CPO Committee states the website has launched, but it has not; (2) the Committee asserts without substantiation that the Participating Members have done as much as they can to implement effective audit practices; and (3) the Committee concludes that a universal procurement system is unachievable due to lack of funds and differing governance rules and regulations, but does ...