Background:

In April of 2005, the City projected the cost of establishing two unified (FDNY, NYPD, FDNY-EMS) 911 emergency call center systems, one in Brooklyn and a second redundant backup system in the Bronx at $380 million. The contract was awarded to Hewlett-Packard. Six years later, the Brooklyn Center is still not fully operational and one year behind schedule.

The Emergency Communications Transformation Program was troubled by findings of poor management and less than satisfactory oversight by the original vendor, which necessitated a second Request for Proposals to be released for the Bronx facility.

In late November, DoITT submitted a $286 million contract to the Comptroller’s Office to hire Northrop Grumman to begin work on establishing the Bronx call center system.  As part of Comptroller Liu’s due diligence in reviewing DoITT’s submission, serious red flags emerged, and a request for a full analysis of the cost estimate was issued.  DoITT provided the Comptroller’s Office with additional documentation, but it was not sufficient to answer significant outstanding questions. Last week, Comptroller Liu rejected the contract.

Below is the full text of the letter sent to Mayor Michael Bloomberg on January 3, 2011:

January 3, 2011

Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg

Mayor

City of New York

City Hall

New York, New York   10007

Dear Mayor Bloomberg:

The Emergency Communications Transformation Program (ECTP) deserves your attention at this time because my office has not been able to approve a $286 million contract for the project as requested by the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT), and because there is opportunity to gain synergy from Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith’s efforts in the wake of the CityTime scandal.

My office has returned the $286 million request from DoITT because of several outstanding questions. Some of the issues are similar to problems encountered with the CityTime project, such as:

Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith is now undertaking a comprehensive review of the City’s major technology projects, beginning with CityTime, to see why certain things were missed and to make sure that additional measures or safety nets are installed to prevent waste and fraud.  The ECTP project should rank high in priority for his review to head off even more severe problems.

The ECTP is an important project that you have initiated for the purpose of improving public safety for New Yorkers.  It’s all the more important that it gets done on a timely basis and within our means.

As always, my office is available to assist.

Sincerely,

John C. Liu

I wrote a piece from 3:00 am to 3:30am with one finger on my iphone and when I tried to copy and paste it to post to Mayor Bloomberg King of New York the entire piece was erased and I don’t think it was an accident.

Joyce Purnick’s awful bio smoke mirror and lies and pushed by her pals at the new york times who used to employer her made a point of saying Mike would oogle women’s breasts at City Hall and say nice tits and how Patti Harris would reprimand him.  Who’s Joyce Purnick’s husband?  Patti’s husband Judge Lebow was written up in The NY Times along with Valone family and Thompson family has in exploiting The People of NYC is a family biz –

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/nyregion/connected-nyc-lawyers-reap-foreclosure-benefits.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0  Yes those connected get the big bucks funneled to them in every way possible…Dirty Patti and her family can verify that from her son getting a cush job along with Bloomberg’s sister’s best friend to run Information Tech NYC Gov and again as if real investigators where to come in just like Glenn Hutchins dumping his stock in Gartner Group who in my opinion over billed us on every thing from ECTP 911 to Board of Elections consulting is the rumor — Patti Harris’s son was quietly allowed to exit with a soft landing and I want to ask Mark Page and Judge Lebow along with all of Rudy’s guys turned SAIC lobbyists did they push the uber corrupt MTA SAIC Deal?

Anyway poor David Seifman was properly ordered to write this piece to help push Mike Bloomberg’s puppet Christine Quinn hence the empty piece on Mike’s admiring some woman’s well formed ass and Christine Quinn who knows even with billionaires getting money funneled to her any way possible and  Howard Rubenstein pulling strings she may lose the mayoral election so she tries to separate her self from Mike saying the man she helped push through an illegal third term with the lie he would help us with the economy and Mike grew richer and I believe Quinn has gone from being sued for back rent 3 or 4 times now owns 2 million $ + properties one in NYC and one in NJ while more New Yorkers fell in to poverty?