He earned doctorate in politics from Princeton University and author of two books like congress, legitimacy and responses to the 2008 financial crisis. Sitting at the far end is daniel lipinski, the 13th fellow at the university of dallas. He represents the Third District of illinois in the house of representatives since 2005 to 2021. Congressman lipinski earned degree in political science, content and consequences. In the middle we have ride ribble, university of wisconsin green bay. He too served in congress and served well. He represented the eighth district of wisconsin and the u. S. House of representatives from 2011 to 2015 and after retiring from the house he served as the Contracting Association for 5 years. With that, let me step away and bring up our guests. [applause] just want to start by thankinge everyone who braved e smoke today and is here in person. Its a real honor to have you gathered together and to thank theer American Enterprise institute for providing really such
Good morning, regarding the audits, we go through annual audits with the Controllers Office. And the emphasis of the audits have been taken a little bit of a interdepartmental emphasis and we would like to work with them to change the dynamics and so we are working with the csa unit. So you are saying that the audits did not happen . Yes, they have been happening every year. Okay, and what have you found through those audits. Different recommendations for one of the recommendations that happened last year was that we should have a tracking system that was not in place and that was implemented in july, with the lba and uts. Okay. And we are in transition right now, and they, and with the recommendations that we were working with the new recommendations. Okay, and the audits of the joint ventures have also happened. I am so sorry. The audits of the joint venture haves also happened . Yes, not at this year, but it has happened in the previous years. What have you found from the audits . F
Childrens. And we are going to conduct another one this summer with the puc at the Contractor Assistance Center and so i have been working with their team and also at public works we are going to conduct additional Public Management and other trainings targeting to bridge that gap between being sub, to becoming a prime and we are hoping to do that in the fall of this year and i wanted to point out one other metric on the last slide there, is out of 7 possible micro, lbe contract ordered during 2122, 7 of them did go to microlbe and that is great and we have a good trajectory and i wanted to point out that the director made a goal for us to award as a department 25 microlbe contracts and as of today, we ordered 34. So you will see that of those you have got 15, additional, and i mean, i am sorry, 8 additional contracts that are awarded in q3, to micros, lbe set aside and then we will see on the Veterans Building seismic upgrade which is right across the street and you probably see the c
And then if you look to the right on that, and is the monetary awards and the total amount was 51. 3 million or 2122 and of that 40 percent went to the lbe primes for 20. 4 million and nonlbes got 8. 5 and i broke it out to the right to give you an idea over all and then i went down and i specifically did lbe subs of 11. 6 million and so of the subof those prime contracts or nonprime or nonlbe contracts the subcontractors, the bles were 11. 6 million and nonlbe subs were 9. 1 and you will see the break out below again of the specific mbe and wbe categories. Now, that was awards, and so the distinction is awards verses payments. So me the money, so the next slide is the total payments of about 5. 4 Million Dollars. Of that, 4. 1 million was paid to prime and i mean, lbe primes and subs and so they combined those numbers and 1. , approximately, 1. 2 million were paid to nonlbe primes and subs and then again, i broke it out by different categories and mbe and wbe to break out the lbe prim
Subof those prime contracts or nonprime or nonlbe contracts the subcontractors, the bles were 11. 6 million and nonlbe subs were 9. 1 and you will see the break out below again of the specific mbe and wbe categories. Now, that was awards, and so the distinction is awards verses payments. So me the money, so the next slide is the total payments of about 5. 4 Million Dollars. Of that, 4. 1 million was paid to prime and i mean, lbe primes and subs and so they combined those numbers and 1. , approximately, 1. 2 million were paid to nonlbe primes and subs and then again, i broke it out by different categories and mbe and wbe to break out the lbe prime subcompliment, okay . And i talk a little bit about the dpw out reach to the community and we have been partnering and i know that you will hear from the puc about the Contractors Assistance Center and first of all we participated in the monitoring vendor fair in 2013 and we got a lot of interest and got to interact with a lot of local Busines