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New Procurement Policies
The City has adopted these new policies, because they enable the City to accomplish 4 guiding principles of the finance department.
- Be the most cost-effective stewards of funds the City of New Haven’s taxpayers have entrusted us with.
- Improve the transparency, accountability, and cost controls of how the City spends funds to support the critical services we provide the residents of New Haven.
- Make New Haven more business friendly, adopting changes that improve how we work with and pay our valued vendors.
- Complies with the New Haven Climate and Sustainability Framework to lower greenhouse gas emissions
About the Priority Payment Program (PPP)
- 100% voluntary program focused on helping strengthen our valued vendor’s cash management, to Get You Paid Quicker if our 45-day payment term causes your business an inconvenience.
- The program will enable the City to release the payment within 24 hours of the invoice being approved verses holding the payment to the 45th day in exchange for a small discount that you propose, as long as it’s fair for both you and the City of New Haven.
- Enable a stronger relationship by aligning mutual goals of both the City and our vendors.
- Achieve long-term savings and protect our community services, the City must continually change our methods and processes to compensate for tighter budgets and stretched resources.
- Vendor has no time or cost associated with tracking down payments.