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Government Efficiency August 2026

The Office of Technology and Innovation Takes 1,372 Days to Run an RFP

Median RFP cycle times vary by a factor of six across City agencies. The slowest is the agency responsible for the City's technology: OTI's median competitive proposal took 1,372 days in FY2025, up from 1,072 the year before. COGE's preliminary report devoted its longest chapter to technology. Its final report proposed no ballot question on it.

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OTI's median technology RFP takes nearly four years, more than three times the citywide median

Median end-to-end days for competitive sealed proposals registered in FY2025, by agency, with the FY2024 median marked where the agency registered proposals in both years.

  • FY2025 median
  • FY2024 median
Source: Mayor’s Office of Contract Services, 2025 Citywide Indicators Report, End to End CSP Cycle Times by Agency Note: The FY2024 marker is omitted for DOB, FDNY, OEM and DOS, which registered no competitive sealed proposals that year. Small denominators make single-agency medians volatile.

Technology ages faster than the process that buys it. COGE's preliminary report put the problem plainly: emerging tools are “improving faster than any procurement process or budget cycle was built to absorb,” and the City risks “wasting public money on systems that don't serve New Yorkers' current needs.” A 1,372-day median is nearly four years between deciding what to buy and being able to pay for it.

The fix was ruled out of scope, not ruled out. Already in the preliminary report, COGE judged that the technology remedies “would likely require further review of both administrative practices and state laws, rather than Charter changes.” The final report follows through: the chapter becomes an appendix describing what the Office of Technology and Innovation is already working on, with no ballot question and no referral to a future commission. That leaves the most consequential procurement problem in the City to administrative effort alone.

What is counted: the median number of calendar days from draft creation to registration in the Financial Management System, for competitive sealed proposals registered by each Mayoral agency in the fiscal year. Agencies that registered no competitive sealed proposals in a year do not appear for that year.

Read agency medians with care. Several agencies register only a handful of proposals a year, so a single unusual procurement moves the median a long way. DSS fell from 911 days to 360 and DCAS from 981 to 589 over one year, which is a swing no management change fully explains.

Sources: Mayor’s Office of Contract Services, 2025 Citywide Indicators Report; COGE Preliminary Report (June 2026); COGE Adopted Final Report (July 23, 2026).