Administration for Children's Services
City agency
Administration for Children's Services: active city contracts ($6,059,113,820 · 522 contracts), vendors (1,340), and how contracts were awarded.
- Active contracts
- $6,059,113,820 · 522 contracts
- Registered to start later
- $13,563,664 · 8 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $31,868,843,788 · 6,294 contracts, incl. expired
- Vendors
- 1,340
- Awarded without a fresh bid
- 68% of contract value · $21,632,033,297 · 3,708 contracts
Largest contracts
Registered city contracts at this agency, by contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. The tag on each row is how it was awarded; “no-bid” marks non-competitive methods (sole source, emergency, negotiated, renewal, intergovernmental). Checkbook NYC
- Residential Care Services CT106820278800399 $263,001,026
- Specialized & Enhanced Family Foster Care (SFFC & EFFC) CT106820278800471 $215,608,062
- Residential Care Services CT106820278800389 $193,044,531
- FY25 Encumbrance for 330 Jay St. CT106820221406259 $188,969,477
- Lease of ACS space at 55 W. 125th Street, Manhattan CT106820201413263 $171,585,162
- Residential Care Services CT106820278800404 $170,319,085
- Enhanced Family Foster Care (EFFC) CT106820278800432 $147,789,600
- Specialized & Enhanced Family Foster Care (SFFC & EFFC) CT106820278800451 $146,410,360
- Enhanced Family Foster Care (EFFC) CT106820278800955 $139,689,066
- Enhanced Family Foster Care (EFFC) CT106820278800447 $133,337,907
- Enhanced Family Foster Care (EFFC) CT106820278800450 $111,495,771
- Enhanced Family Foster Care (EFFC) CT106820278800446 $111,231,663
- Enhanced Family Foster Care (EFFC) CT106820278800429 $101,555,595
- Enhanced Family Foster Care (EFFC) CT106820278800428 $96,509,436
- Lease of ACS space at 110 William Street, Manhattan CT106820201409260 $92,286,563
How contracts were awarded
Every registered contract at this agency grouped by procurement method, largest dollars first. “No-bid” marks non-competitive methods (PPB Rules; the Comptroller/MOCS competitive-vs-non-competitive split). Expand a method to see its current contracts, largest first: running now, then any registered
- Renewal (not re-bid) $14,773,708,804 · 1,220 awarded
- RFP $9,671,225,466 · 804 awarded
- Negotiated contract $5,011,037,253 · 1,479 awarded
- Negotiated (real-property/other) $804,315,189 · 122 awarded
- Assignment $458,674,725 · 79 awarded
- Government/legal mandate $245,528,778 · 112 awarded
- Competitive sealed bid $221,549,020 · 85 awarded
- Multiple award $211,375,473 · 286 awarded
- Discretionary (member-item) $142,829,526 · 346 awarded
- M/WBE small purchase $66,694,672 · 407 awarded
- Sole source $48,130,602 · 33 awarded
- Small purchase $46,777,520 · 1,000 awarded
- Demonstration project $45,423,832 · 11 awarded
- Emergency $39,211,602 · 25 awarded
- Government-to-government $29,673,673 · 11 awarded
- Intergovernmental $26,127,890 · 234 awarded
- Real-estate transaction $19,010,184 · 3 awarded
- Innovative procurement $5,215,788 · 4 awarded
- Subscription/membership $2,155,636 · 32 awarded
- Pre-qualified list (PQVL) $178,156 · 1 awarded
Payments to tracked organizations
City payments from this agency to organizations the site tracks (fiscal-sponsor pass-throughs and matched vendors), totaled per organization — a curated subset, not the agency's full spending (most of which is payroll and untracked vendors; see Largest contracts). FY2020 and later, plus
- SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES 19 payments · FY2020–FY2026 $367,483,966
- JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK 25 payments · FY2020–FY2026 $298,179,165
- THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE 25 payments · FY2020–FY2027 $231,366,247
- THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY 21 payments · FY2020–FY2027 $200,872,694
- CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES 25 payments · FY2020–FY2026 $195,259,496
- NEW YORK FOUNDLING 25 payments · FY2021–FY2027 $187,553,333
- GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES 25 payments · FY2020–FY2026 $186,646,048
- GRAHAM-WINDHAM 21 payments · FY2020–FY2027 $180,129,207
- FORESTDALE INC 25 payments · FY2020–FY2027 $158,113,618
- JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC 20 payments · FY2020–FY2026 $118,197,701
- NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC 25 payments · FY2020–FY2027 $96,398,670
- 110 WILLIAM PROPERTY INVESTORS III LLC 3 payments · FY2025–FY2027 $37,304,209
- ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC 24 payments · FY2020–FY2027 $36,991,410
- THE FLOATING HOSPITAL INC 15 payments · FY2020–FY2026 $33,960,020
- SAFE HORIZON INC 5 payments · FY2023–FY2027 $30,094,255
DOI reports about this agency
- Access Denied: Challenges to DOI's Oversight of the City's Child Welfare System 2026-05-05
- The Impact of Raise the Age & Bail Reform: Safety, Disciplinary, & Staffing Challenges at the City's Juvenile Detention Facilities 2024-10-24
- Review of ACS' Systemic Safety Accountability Mechanisms for Foster Care Providers 2018-10-12
- Investigation into ACS's Response to Child Abuse and Neglect Allegations Involving Jaden Jordan 2017-01-26
- ACS Policy and Practice Violations Identified in Three Child Welfare Cases 2016-05-03
- Inadequate Oversight by the Administration for Children's Services 2016-04-13
- A Department of Investigation Examination of Eleven Child Fatalities and One Near Fatality (ACS Report) 2007-08-09
- The Department of Investigation's Examination Of Foster Care Services Provided By St. Christopher's, Inc. 2005-01-14