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Councilmember Robert C. White, Jr. 2
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A PROPOSED RESOLUTION 6
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IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 10
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To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve a Contract 14
for Services (DCHA CA-X-A-2023) with JDC Construction Company LLC to fund 15
construction management services for the District of Columbia Housing 16
Authority’s portfolio of public housing. 17
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RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That 19
this resolution may be cited as the “Contract for Services with JDC Construction 20
Company LLC Contract No. DCHA CA-X-A-2023 Emergency Declaration Resolution of 21
2023”. 22
Sec. 2(a) In September 2022, the federal Department of Housing and Urban 23
Development (HUD) issued a report on an assessment of the District of Columbia 24
Housing Authority (DCHA) that HUD had conducted earlier that year. Among many 25
other issues, HUD found that “DCHA is not maintaining [public housing] units in decent, 26
safe, and sanitary condition.” HUD also recommended that “DCHA should categorize its 27
inventory of vacant units to determine units ready for immediate occupancy, those 28
requiring typical turnover prep and those requiring significant modernization and 29
immediately take actions to increase occupancy and house more families.” 30
(b) DCHA has begun to implement an initiative to conduct a comprehensive 31
inspection of every unit in every public housing building in its portfolio, starting with 32 2
each building’s occupied units; rapidly address any urgent issues identified; and continue 33
from there to address other work orders according to their urgency. 34
(c) DCHA’s in-house property management, inspection, maintenance, and 35
construction teams lack the capacity to perform construction management services 36
regarding the work described above on a timeframe that meets residents’ needs and 37
satisfies HUD’s demand for immediate action. DCHA has therefore worked with the 38
District of Columbia Department of General Services (DGS) to identify local contractors 39
capable of performing on-call construction, repair, and replacement services. 40
Specifically, DCHA reviewed competitive bids that DGS had received in response to 41
solicitation DCAM-CS-21-RFP-0008 for construction management services at 42
government facilities. From there, DCHA identified a set of successful bidders from 43
DGS’s process to serve as a Qualified Bidder List for similar services to DCHA. 44
(d) The DCHA Stabilization and Reform Board has approved a set of contracts 45
for this purpose, including Contract No. DCHA CA-X-A-2023, between DCHA and JDC 46
Construction Company LLC (the “Contractor”). Under the contract, DCHA would award 47
up to $8 million worth of task orders over a 4-year period to this Contractor through 48
competitive award processes involving the Contractor and other Qualified Bidder List 49
participants. 50
(e) Section 451(c) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved 51
December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 803; D.C. Official Code § 1-204.51(c)), requires active 52
Council approval of multiyear contracts. 53
(f) There exists an immediate need to approve Contract No. DCHA CA-X-A-54
2023, between DCHA and the Contractor, to allow the Contractor to support DCHA’s 55 3
urgent building inspection, maintenance, and repair efforts by providing construction 56
management services. 57
Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances 58
enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the 59
“Contract for Services with JDC Construction Company LLC Contract No. DCHA CA-60
X-A-2023 Emergency Approval Resolution of 2023” be adopted on an emergency basis. 61
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately. 62