Eckert Consulting has been a primary member of a disaster recovery consulting team supporting the City of New York (City) in their $6B COVID-19 response and recovery effort.  In this role, Eckert Consulting has provided FEMA policy issue management services to the City on their most high-stakes and complex FEMA PA Issues relating to COVID-19.

Here are some examples of the successful COVID-19 efforts that were spearheaded by Eckert Consulting:

• PW Creation
  Eckert Consulting developed Project Worksheets for temporary hospitals, incident management costs and Management Costs that successfully captured the City’s COVID-19 expenses.  As part of this effort, Eckert Consulting developed a projected need analysis paper that successfully showed FEMA that the City used the best information available in their decision to erect two temporary hospitals in the beginning of the pandemic even though those hospitals ended up having minimal patients.  Throughout this rapid process of developing these PWs all costs claimed by the City were obligated by FEMA.

• Compliance Issues Related to Procurement and Contracting
  Eckert Consulting has provided numerous analysis and position papers for procurement and contracting issues.  Eckert Consulting has been the leader in resolving the most expensive and complex compliance issue scenarios for the City of New York Hurricane Sandy Projects.