Auditor deems Metropolis of Vancouver high-end workplace chairs purchased with ‘due regard’ for worth – BC Information

A latest report accomplished by the Metropolis of Vancouver Auditor Normal Mike Macdonell concluded that town spent $5.96M buying, repairing, and putting in workplace furnishings over a 30-month interval.

The report was commissioned again in 2020 by then-mayor Kennedy Stewart after a cargo of high-end Herman Miller workplace chairs, retailing for $1,000 every, had been seen being delivered to metropolis corridor. As of September 2020, town had spent $316,800 on furnishings as a part of a $2.6-million renovation of metropolis corridor’s second flooring, which was authorized within the metropolis’s capital funds.

The total report, which was accomplished this month, will be discovered right here however concluded that “the Metropolis used weighted standards assessments to pick workplace furnishings, had a fairly complete procurement coverage, typically adopted its procurement and buying insurance policies for buying workplace furnishings, and used up-to-date provider agreements.”

The audit decided that the workplace furnishings purchases had been made with “due regard for greatest worth inside established Metropolis insurance policies, pointers and priorities” nevertheless it did take some exceptions and made 5 suggestions for higher practices surrounding procurement coverage and the way town qualifies furnishings suppliers.

The report additionally established that town has not outlined how usually assessments ought to be carried out or up to date, as an example, it doesn’t conduct assessments on newly launched furnishings gadgets, nor did it have adequate documentation for one evaluation.

Additionally it is value noting that the audit solely regarded on the procurement of workplace furnishings and didn’t embody “consideration of the selections driving these procurements,” in response to a letter from Macdonell at first of the report.

An examination of town’s administration of workplace house, together with its “ergonomic necessities” and “house planning methods” is reportedly a part of Macdonell’s audit plan for 2024.

This audit investigated if workplace furnishings purchases had been made based mostly on reaching the very best worth for cash for town, considering ergonomics, house planning, and sustainability.

“Most of the feedback and suggestions contained throughout the report will inform senior administration to replace insurance policies with latest regulatory necessities, create procurement methods, change templates and commonplace working procedures and proceed to construct upon current processes in preparation for the following procurement of workplace furnishings and different future purchases,” reads a joint assertion from Armin Amrolia, Deputy Metropolis Supervisor and Appearing Normal Supervisor of Actual Property and Services Administration, and Patrice Impey, the Metropolis’s Chief Monetary Officer and Normal Supervisor of Finance, Danger, and Provide Chain Administration, in response to the report.

There might be a follow-up on the semi-annual OAG assembly.