Bureau of INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Supporting the theme of transparency and accountability to New York City government, the Comptroller's Office has introduced a new online application that provides access to information on City contracts to millions of New Yorkers. The application, ClearView, allows anyone with an Internet connection to view specific contract details for both registered contracts and contracts pending registration.
ClearView provides the public with access to details regarding approximately 90,000 contracts that City agencies have with businesses, nonprofits, and other government entities. Vendors and members of the public can now find key information about active contracts or peruse from top to bottom the City’s contracts sorted by contract amount. Contract information can also be searched for using a variety of different criteria, including:
- A City agency’s or vendor’s name;
- The nature of the services being provided;
- The contract’s amount;
- The contract’s number;
- The vendor’s Tax ID number; or
- The date the Comptroller’s Office received the contract.
Contract information is updated nightly and includes active contracts registered with the Comptroller’s Office over the last five years. Search results can easily be sorted or downloaded to an electronic file that can be imported into a spreadsheet application.
The ClearView application provides additional insight to New Yorkers on how and where their tax dollars are being spent.
As part of New York City Comptroller's ongoing effort to increase and promote equal opportunity for all New Yorkers the Comptroller has created this website to track City government spending with Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises (M/WBEs).
The "M/WBE Report Card NYC" website is another addition to the My Money NYC online transparency initiative. It provides nearly real-time spending information for teh City's 100+ agencies with M/WBE-certified vendors. The information reflects actual agency expenditures, rather than projected numbers, but does not currently include sub-contracting data.
This website allows New Yorkers to see where each City agency ranks on M/WBE spending and what industries and M/WBE-certified companies do the most business with the City.
This application, on the Comptroller's website, provides unprecedented access and transparency on how the City spends billions of dollars. It provides daily updates on disbursments for almost all City agencies by expense category. Users can analyze expenses by: category, agency, payee, date range, contract, disbursment fund, or any combination of these attributes.
An application on the Comptroller website which asks citizens and other stakeholders to submit their ideas and suggestions for audits that the Comptroller's Office should conduct focusing on saving the City money, increasing revenue, or improving the effeciency of City agency operations.
A suite of applications giving the public unparalleled access to information about the New York City Pension Funds. The first application is Pension Meeting Webcasts. This was started in April 2011, with live webcasts of the monthly investment meetings of each of the five pension funds. At the conclusion of the live meetings the content is posted on the Comptroller's website for "on demand" viewing.
The Pension OnLine Library is a second application in the suite which includes for each of the five Pension Funds: membership metrics, graphics on pension returns, calendars of all board and committee meetings, investment meeting minutes, meeting agendas, quarterly investment reports, and other financial and statistical data.
A third application in the Pension NYC suite is Interactive FAQ. This application lists over 50 frequently asked questions about the Pension funds, with detailed answers. The application in interactive, letting viewers submit their own questions. An interpretive search tool will look for the appropriate answer, or forward the question to subject matter experts to answer, with automatic updates to the entire database of questions and answers.
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