By Deon Roberts, Online Editor
The city’s inspector general, Ed Quatrevaux, says the Nagin administration used the wrong kind of contracting for the revitalization of the Municipal Auditorium.
Quatrevaux says the project should be awarded using a development contract, not a professional services contract, and that it is the kind of project the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority should be involved with.
“The method used to procure the project as a professional services contract is inappropriate,” the inspector general says in a letter to Nagin and City Council members.
But the Nagin administration says this is not a NORA project.
“NORA’s scope does not include the redevelopment of city owned properties,” says a statement from Nagin’s press office.
Click here for a CityBusiness story on the issue.•
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Jennifer // Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 8:51 pm |
It is clear that the RFP was tailored to fit the current awardees. The awardees even state that they pitched the idea to their friend Mayor Nagin before he released the RFP. Surprise the RFP perfectly fits what they had in mind!! Being a part of the Good Old Boy network sure has its privileges.