Advisory on the City’s Monitoring of Concessionaire Agreements for Compliance with Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise Requirements

Executive Summary

In the course of its work, OIG determined that from 2011 to 2018, CPM improperly claimed MBE credit for a vendor that was not MBE-certified. CPM’s non-compliance with the M/WBE requirements must be understood in the context of the scale and impact of the City’s contract with CPM.

OIG identified a lack of sufficient oversight processes or procedures to ensure that concessionaire agreements, such as and including the CPM Agreement, are compliant with the City’s M/WBE requirements. As such, and in light of the important policy goals of the M/WBE program, OIG recommended that the Mayor’s Office implement sufficient oversight processes or procedures to ensure compliance.