lemonis: so there's a term that's called an rfp, request for proposal.t into the marketplace that allows manufacturers to bid on a particular manufacturing job, and it often happens in a bidding process, sometimes closed, sometimes open. at the end of the day, the decision is made by the company to take on one of those manufacturers based on quality, price and terms. you may send an rfp out to nine manufacturers and say, "give me a quote," and then you look at all of them, and you choose. florence may be one that will be selected for an rfp. lulu: i just don't want this to happen again. lemonis: florence, do you like working with lulu? florence: what do you mean? lemonis: do you like working with her? florence: i loved working with her before. lemonis: past tense? honestly, no bull[bleep] if this is not gonna work for you or for you, now is the time to know it. lulu: totally. lemonis: right now, and we can shake hands and move on. ♪ okay. thank you. ♪ after the fallout with florence, at this point, i'm just gonna find another alternative. so i've lined u

so all of the rfps are evaluated as a procurement which considers price and quality.t value points were awarded across a number of criteria. one was prior relevant experience, including a track record of safety, student safety is the paramount importance. nothing matters if students aren't safe. that's the number one thing. we evaluated based on commitment to new or sustainable vehicles, staffing proposals and approach to customer service. for those three proposals, which we use all of the board guidelines around public procurement, it was monitored by and supported by our legal department, our purchasing department, and our chief financial officer. we had a cross-section of staff from different departments help review and evaluate. we didn't open the prices until after we looked at the best value score. the company that was determined to be the best value is zum services. there are comments and questions about if zum safe? i want to speak to that for a moment. as i said, safety is the most important. all drivers, regardless of the vehicle type, must go through the sa

. >> and i appreciate that the phase two rfp has a bio mass removal mandate in it, but these types of requirements on other projects have scared away industry due to the huge costs involved. so can you just share, what are you -- what do you think the options are for removing bio mass besides openly burning many metric tons of slash piles in arizona's forests? does the forest service intend to overcome previous challenges to bio mass remufls in tovals i future? >> the bottom line is the aggressive work we and others are doing to find markets for that bio plas. it's not economical, as you well know, to remove it, to burn it all and put smoke in the air and we are working on multiple fronts, or our forest products lab, wood innovations work on a marketplace solution to bio mass. now, in the meantime, fore fry has been really a leader in teaching us this difficulty we have in how much of viable timber versus how much bio mass and how we bring the right proposal forward of what the requirements are. that meets a business model that's reasonable. >> is there -- i mean, as you know, the mar

. >> the face to rfp has been delayed multiple times. now that it's out for review the duty, the contractor dates have been delayed also multiple times. some of the delays are largely due to listing the stakeholders and approving rfp which is commendable but it is important we adhere to an aggressive timeline. can you share on the record when you expect the contract to be awarded? >> you're exactly right. i was personally involved in the decision to extend it based on really informative feedback like potential bidders. the proposals are due in may. it's our top priority. it's to evaluate in the summer months and we will award in early fall, and it's a priority scale on the time at. >> thank you. i'm over time. >> senator heinrich. >> thank you, madam chair. chief, according to a recent usgs report about the economics of forest restoration across the west, for each million dollars that we invest in landscape skill forest restoration programs, communities actually see more than 2.2 million in economic output. not only do these projects bri

we are dealing with that in time, this week we will be sending out an rfp to make sure we have plentye. we have to look across four different elements, the protected guilt like facemasks, treatment, vaccine development in which we are moving, we are going to be able to get a vaccine and have to time it usually takes. and then thighs gnostics so we can accurately determine whether patient has corona and doesn't have to come to the hospital. bottom line, seconded duration is moving rapidly as possible in my part of the portfolio is to make sure supply changes are secured. >> you make a lot of important points. the president has been trying to get the supply chains back to north america. get the manufacturing base of our country out of places like china so we don't have to be reliant on these things. we are going to seek these shortages, if are going to cut into earnings. you expect an impact on growth? >> one last points on the supply chain issue, the markham people need to understand crises like this, we have no allies. back in 2009 during the swine flu problem, our best friends in aus

they did their own rfp and the question we asked was have you pressure tested it?id they tell you? >> they gave us assurances that was going to work. it didn't work. >> did they pressure test it? >> in hind stiet not nearly enoug enough. >> congressman ilhan omar said. have you considered resigning? >> absolutely not. jake, look at the last three years. my job, when i came in, was to rebuild our infrastructure, win elections. when do you that, sometimes you have to make tough decisions. >> i categorically disagree with her on this. we have been winning. it's important for people to take a broader step back right now. people were saying nobody in the democratic field can win. there was understandable angst. we're in a position now that i don't know who the nominee is going to be. we've been winning elections in 2017, 2018, 2019. we're in a better position to hand our nominee an infrastructure for success better than ever before. >> speaking of infrastructure, can the american people, can democrats have faith in, a, the results that ultimately come from iowa and, b,

they weren't voting with it but they used an app in 2016 and they did their own rfp to select a vendord the question we asked was have you pressure tested it? have you pressure tested it? >> what did they tell you? >> they gave us assurances that it was going to work. it didn't work. >> have they pressure tested it? >> well, with hindsight not nearly enough. >> you know some democrats are calling for your resignation. congresswoman marsha fudge said we're a party in chaos. omar said you should be held responsible. have you considered resigning? >> absolutely not. the last three years, my job was to rebuild our infrastructure, to win elections. when you do that, sometimes you have to make tough decisions. our super delegate reform, i have great respect for congresswoman fudge, she doesn't agree with it. we have been winning. this is what it's about. i think it's really important for people to take a broader step back right now. you know, this is the most unsettling phase of the cycle. 1991 george herbert walker bush's approval ratings were sky high. people were saying there's nobody in

hhs is going out with an rfp to secure a half a billion face masks alone.g is the treatment options. we have three balls in the air on that. there is a drug called runtime severe, administered intravenously. we are trying to secure theci dosage for that. trying to develop oral antivirals in a very rapid time, and there is something called monoclonal antibodies, which helped build the immune system. hhs is working on that. then, the next thing, which is the magic bullet, that is the vaccine development. we have already setwe out a plan to develop a vaccine in less than half i the time it usually takes with a combination of private-sector efficiencies and regulatory streamlining. and finally, and importantly, there is point-of-care diagnostics. the problem, tucker, that we have now is if somebody had symptoms, they had to go to the hospital, take a sample, send it to a lab come and wait 48 hours for that. what we are trying to do is adapt existing handheld devices to the coronavirus so that workers out in the field can get instant results. tucker, the preside

to be the app plus the phone voting so they chopped off the phone voting and they have to redo the rfp on the app. they don't start working on the app until october. i mean they had enough time do it in my opinion. it was fairly irresponsible. anyway, i could talk to you about that. my time is up. one quick comment because i talk about security testers, they could not tell me, all he said was he could not tell me who it was or why they have an nba. i will leave you with that. [ applause ] >>> before we open it up, i want to ask one question of the whole panel and please feel free to bring on whatever perspective on this. i have been working in this area of election technologies for a couple of decades now. consistently during that time i think all technologies are accused -- i am saying that we should not use computer technology we don't trust. i am just being sort of perspective that it is thrown back. we hear things like well, we put a man on the moon surely we can build a reliable voting system. we hear everything has vulnerability and so does everything else. we rely on computers f

on a facility's management and operation's and maintenance plan for 1515 evans and intented to issue rfp some time this year. another update this year is at the public art for the project has been selected and i'm sure randall will provide an update. and with that, i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. what is unique about this building since we are the publig it and we deal with water and power? are there any water features that are going to be there, that people can see in the activity area? are there any educational, outside educational treatments that people will be able to identify and learn from and is it going to be any outside exercise equipment? if you go outside the country, people are doing that with open spaces and especially since this is not necessarily in a park but somewhere where there are people and eyes on it. this is definitely a use -- i'm sorry, start with the last end of your question, the adult exercise equipment, so that green area that's next to the education building, we're kind of leaving that open for additional programming space in th

they chopped off the phone voting, then they would redo the rfp for the app. they didn't start working on the app until october. they had no time to do it. it was, in my opinion, fairly irresponsible. so anyway the app was developed by shadow. i was talking to the ceo and i can talk to you about that. my time is up. one quick comment, they have an nda, he couldn't tell me -- all he said was that it was an enterprise level security firm. he couldn't tell me who it was. he couldn't tell me why they have an nda. i'll leave you with that. [ applause ] >> before we open it up, i just want to ask one question of the whole panel and please feel free to riff on whatever perspective on this you choose. i've been working in this area of election technology for a couple of decades now and consistently during that time i, like i think all technologiologists who worked in this area, are accused of bei being -- i'm saying we shouldn't use computer technology, we shouldn't trust technology. i'm just being a worry wart, sort of the perspective that is thrown back. we hear thi

employees want values they can ascribe to that they can believe in and therefore push it and customers who rfpsn they get them actually say hey you've got to hit this, this, this and this in terms of packaging, in terms of all the different. >> when i was out with satya nadella he's telling his suppliers this is the way it has to be. >> you got to listen >> you want to stay on the right side of microsoft. there is without a doubt a move by kids so to speak that is driving this a lot of people are saying will you give me a break? the kids can't be doing it they are >> i would argue this is what is good about capitalism. if it gets debated tonight on the stage by some of the candidates >> my point is that things are changing >> since the election of 2016, the etf is down 21 for coal. the clean energy atf pbw up 139% it's just money making decisions >> what is incredible is that germany increased coal india's increased coal china's increased coal >> i know. >> we should be making a lot of money on coal. coal is not working. they're just not making a lot of money. >> if we go coget natural gas more

>> the airport explained to us that after the rfp and the contract was awarded they did not consider various additional equipment that was to be installed. as a result of that various additional equipment, there's related staffing personnel costs and other related costs and we itemize that on page 3 of our report and that totals $5,000,928.53 and we fac felt wd not what that would be or include these additional personnel or related costs. we recommended that to the committee. >> same house, same call? >> different house, mr. president. we need a role call. >> role call, please. (role call). >> without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously. >> madam clerk, i see it's 2:32, so let's go to our 2:30 item. >> we have commendations from five members beginning with president yi, supervisor stephanie, safaye, mandelman. >> we have several commendations. let's try to keep every commendation to less than five minutes so that we are respectful of every one's time. so thank you all for being here today. the first person that i would like to bring up is my commendation, ken rich. are yo

>> the airport explained to us that after the rfp and the contract was awarded they did not consider various additional equipment that was to be installed. as a result of that various additional equipment, there's related staffing personnel costs and other related costs and we itemize that on page 3 of our report and that totals $5,000,928.53 and we fac felt wd not what that would be or include these additional personnel or related costs. we recommended that to the committee. >> same house, same call? >> different house, mr. president. we need a role call. >> role call, please. (role call). >> without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously. >> madam clerk, i see it's 2:32, so let's go to our 2:30 item. >> we have commendations from five members beginning with president yi, supervisor stephanie, safaye, mandelman. >> we have several commendations. let's try to keep every commendation to less than five minutes so that we are respectful of every one's time. so thank you all for being here today. the first person that i would like to bring up is my commendation, ken rich. are yo

and in an immediate response to that we responded to our rfp put out by the department to the statusd, we'll be able to turn one of those properties my father purchased into transitional housing for women. [applause] to provide supportive services to women in need. finally, i want to thank and acknowledge supervisor walton for his resolution today on reparations. i hope that the board of supervisors considers this resolution and supports black people in san francisco, with the stabilization fund, so that we can come back and reintegrate san francisco at the same number if not more than once every less. black organizations in san francisco need the support because we are the backbone of the black community in san francisco and i just want to thank you all for your time and i want to thank everyone who came today for honoring the rest of us, it's a privilege for us to work for you. so, we hope to continue so that you can be proud of us and get your support. so thank you, very much. [applause] [applause] >> supervisor yee: thank you, everyone. that concludes our special computations for

and in an immediate response to that we responded to our rfp put out by the department to the statusd, we'll be able to turn one of those properties my father purchased into transitional housing for women. [applause] to provide supportive services to women in need. finally, i want to thank and acknowledge supervisor walton for his resolution today on reparations. i hope that the board of supervisors considers this resolution and supports black people in san francisco, with the stabilization fund, so that we can come back and reintegrate san francisco at the same number if not more than once every less. black organizations in san francisco need the support because we are the backbone of the black community in san francisco and i just want to thank you all for your time and i want to thank everyone who came today for honoring the rest of us, it's a privilege for us to work for you. so, we hope to continue so that you can be proud of us and get your support. so thank you, very much. [applause] [applause] >> supervisor yee: thank you, everyone. that concludes our special computations for

on a facility's management and operation's and maintenance plan for 1515 evans and intented to issue rfp some time this year. another update this year is at the public art for the project has been selected and i'm sure randall will provide an update. and with that, i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. what is unique about this building since we are the publig it and we deal with water and power? are there any water features that are going to be there, that people can see in the activity area? are there any educational, outside educational treatments that people will be able to identify and learn from and is it going to be any outside exercise equipment? if you go outside the country, people are doing that with open spaces and especially since this is not necessarily in a park but somewhere where there are people and eyes on it. this is definitely a use -- i'm sorry, start with the last end of your question, the adult exercise equipment, so that green area that's next to the education building, we're kind of leaving that open for additional programming space in th