Technical Assistance Consultants
The Opportunity Program Group has a contract with two technical assistance consultants. These consultants assists the Authority with its outreach activities and provides management and technical assistance to minority, women, and small business enterprises and contractors at no charge to the service recipients. Specific services provided by the consultant includes:
- Maintaining a plan room where M/W/SBEs can review plans and specifications for all full service contracts put out to bid by the Dormitory Authority within the relevant market area;
- Maintaining a construction information library containing building codes, Sweet's Catalog, Thomas' Register, estimating manuals, standard forms, and computer hardware/software to assist in cost estimating;
- Assisting M/W/SBEs with reading drawings, specifications, and other bid documents; quantity take-offs; project pricing and related areas;
- Advising on loan and bond packaging, and cash flow estimates;
- Assisting with verification of construction cost estimates, tentative work schedules, identification of staffing and field supervision requirements and contract management; and assisting with post-award submittals, including shop drawing preparation and presentation, and preparation of payment requisitions and change order requests.
The two technical assistance providers for M/W/SBEs statewide are located:
(Upstate)
Beverly J. Jackson, Chief Officer
RMBDC Inc.
142 Catherine Street
Albany, NY 12202
Phone: 518-434-9153
and
595 Blossom Rd
Suite 304
Rochester, NY 14610
Phone: 585-546-5556
http://www.rmbdc.com/
(Downstate)
New York Technical Assistance Team (NY/TAT)
Jamaica Business Resource Center/Bradford Construction/Noble Strategy
545 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1900N
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 866-750-7011
http://www.jbrc.org/
Jim Skeete
jskeete@noblestrategy.com
Noble Strategy, LLC.
2601 Frederick Douglass Blvd.
New York, NY 10030-2103
Phone: 212-690-4370
http://www.noblestrategy.com/
The Opportunity Programs Group has six programmatic operations, namely,
- Construction Contracting Program
- Set-Aside Program
- Employment Compliance Program
- Commodity Compliance Program
- Construction-related Professional Services Program
- Financial and Professional Services Diversity Programs
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