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BidNet Direct hosts a centralized portal to find all bids, RFPs, and state government contracts for the Empire State Purchasing Group.
New York government professionals can streamline their procurement process and stay competitive by monitoring this official bid aggregation resource.
FindRFP offers access to New York bids, RFPs, and government contracts from state and local governments through a free trial.
Government professionals in NY can streamline procurement research and stay competitive by tracking active RFPs and contracts across jurisdictions.
The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY) maintains a portal for organizations to explore current bid and RFP opportunities.
NY government professionals and contractors can identify active procurement opportunities with a major state public authority that finances and manages capital projects across New York.
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Less-restricted federal employees may engage in partisan political activity off-duty — but never on-duty, never in the workplace, never using government property, and never while wearing identifying agency clothing. Social media posts from a personal device while on duty count as on-duty activity.
Hatch Act violations carry penalties from reprimand to removal. Career employees with strong records have been removed for posts that took 30 seconds to write at lunch.
Most state open-meeting laws require posted notice with sufficient specificity for the public to know what is being decided. Generic "discussion of personnel matters" or "old business" descriptions routinely fail challenge, voiding any vote taken on items not specifically noticed.
A voided action requires a re-vote at a properly noticed meeting — including any contract execution that depended on it. Counterparties to voided contracts have leverage they did not have before the defect surfaced.
MSRB Rule 15c2-12 requires issuers to file notice of certain events within 10 business days. The list runs to 16 categories now, including some (insolvency of obligated person, modifications to rights of bondholders, financial obligations material to investors) that are easily missed without a tracking process.
A pattern of late or missed event filings can trigger SEC enforcement and impair the issuer's future market access. The reputational cost outlasts the immediate penalty.
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