Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR) Quarterly Contract Reporting

data.ny.gov | Last Updated 21 Nov 2019

A listing of contracts between the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery – organized under the NYS Housing Trust Fund Corporation (HTFC) and operating within NYS Homes and Community Renewal – and various service providers and storm recovery organizations across New York State.

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This dataset has the following 8 columns:

Column NameAPI Column NameData TypeDescriptionSample Values
Contractor Namecontractor_nametextThe name of the contractor delivering goods or performing services using GOSR’s Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
DUNS Numberduns_numbertextDun & Bradstreet’s Data Universal Numbering System or DUNS Number is a unique identifier used to identify individual businesses for many business-to-business transactions. Some joint venture contracts/subrecipient agreements may list multiple DUNS numbers, in other words, separate DUNS for each vendor/subrecipient if there is no joint venture DUNS number.
Procured Byprocured_bytextThe name of the unit of government (municipal, county or state agency) procuring the goods or services. Some of the lesser known acronyms include:  Community Development and Disaster Recovery Corporation (CDDRC)  Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY)  Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)/Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC)  Division of Budget (DOB)/NYS Housing Trust Fund Corporation (HTFC)  Empire State Development Corporation (ESD)  Greater Atlantic Beach Water Reclamation District (GABWRD)  Homes and Community Renewal (HCR)/Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR)  NYS Housing Trust Fund Corporation (HTFC)/Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR)  Health & Welfare Council of Long Island (HWCLI)  NYS Department of Transportation (NYS DOT)  Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP)  Rebuilding Together NYC  Schoharie Soil and Water Conservation District (SSWCD)
Contract Execution Datecontract_execution_datecalendar_dateThe date of the contract execution for the goods or services provided in the contract.
Contract End Datecontract_end_datecalendar_dateThe end date of the contract for the goods or services provided in the contract. If blank, the contract is open ended. Open-ended contracts exist only for the following:  Architectural and engineering services (by contract agreement). Contract terminates upon issuance of a written notice.  Affordable housing co-funded with the NYS Homes and Community Renewal (loan and grant agreement). Contract terminates with the latest expiration date of any of the accompanying regulatory agreements. Note that open ended (date) contracts have a specified dollar amount. Note also that open value contracts exist only for two types of contract: temporary staffing services and for legal services.
Total Contract Amounttotal_contract_amountnumberThe total value of the contract including funds not provided by the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery or in other words the ‘gross amount’ of the contract. If marked ‘open,’ these contracts are for professional services like temporary staffing or legal services, which do not specify a total dollar amount, but do have specific contract end dates. Some DASNY (Dormitory Authority of the State of New York) term consultant contracts do not have a dollar value assigned, rather, the “Not To Exceed” values are decided at the work order level, not the contract level. When there is a specific scope of work that GOSR needs DASNY to perform, GOSR signs a work order with DASNY specifying the scope and budget, and then DASNY issues a work authorization to a contractor to perform the work. (A “work authorization” is the specific contract mechanism used by DASNY to engage a consultant under an existing term contract that details the specific scope of services to be performed. Conversely, a “work order” is the mechanism used under a different HTFC/DASNY subrecipient agreement pursuant to which HTFC engages DASNY to perform a particular scope of work for a specific budget.)
Amount of CDBG-DR Fundsamount_of_cdbg_dr_fundsnumberThe dollar value of the grant provided by the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery or the ‘net amount’ of CDBG-DR funds in the contract.
Brief Description of Contractbrief_description_of_contracttextA brief description of the goods and services to be provided under contract. Contracts marked ‘TBD’ indicate a contract between GOSR (HTFC) and a subrecipient where the scope of work has yet to be defined. The scope is defined when a project has been approved and added via an amendment to the subrecipient agreement. In some cases, agreements do not lead to any project, in which case, the contract end date may have passed and the brief description is marked ‘TBD.’ An amendment in progress before the contract end date may result in both a project and a lengthening of the contract which may lag in the reporting contained in this dataset. Finally, an amendment added after the end date of a lapsed subrecipient agreement may have an effective date before the end date, and may both add scope to the agreement and extend the term.