Preferred Vendor Certification Program
By Alex Bores, Bindu Gakhar, Dwight Lin, and Nicole Schneidman
This policy brief recommends that the City establish an Internet Service Provider Preferred Vendor Certification Program that provides enticements to vendors who meet certain performance and affordability criteria. Establishing a voluntary certification program would incentivize vendors to provide more affordable internet services without the City having to engage in the costly and litigious process of enforcing affordability and access provisions in contracts.
This brief was completed as part of a project for the 2021 Tech Executive Leadership Initiative (TELI), hosted in conjunction with the Tech Talent Project.
