City Manager and City staff be and hereby is requested to review its bidding process to improve outreach to local businesses on upcoming opportunities to contract for municipal business; to provide clarity on how to become a city vendor; to increasing access to information needed to compete for city business; and to build for accessibility at each stage of the contracting and bidding process

How it started

Oct 29, 2018 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern and Toomey: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Oct 29, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Alanna Mallon
Craig A. Kelley
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Marc McGovern
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Oct 29, 2018