3M Company
Lobbying client
The Minnesota-based industrial and consumer products conglomerate behind Post-it Notes, Scotch tape and N95 respirators, and a supplier of reflective street-sign sheeting and other materials to city agencies. It has filed 6 lobbying disclosures in 2024, retaining Urban Strategies to lobby 48 council members on procurement terms tied to the cost of doing business with the city, and it holds $10.3 million in active NYC contracts as of August 2026.
- Council members lobbied
- 48 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 6
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $60,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Goods
- City contracts (active)
- $10,301,177 · 2 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $23,127,004 · 25 since 2010, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $14,396,288
- Won without a fresh bid
- 43% of contract value · $10,031,158 · 10 contracts
- Based in
- Saint Paul, MN (out of state)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Urban Strategies, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Brooklyn Public Library City agency
- DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service City agency
- Fire Department City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Fire Department City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Procurement - COST OF DOING BUSINESS/ECONOMIC INCENTIVES
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- REPAIR-MAINTENANCE SELF-CONTAIN BREATHING APPARATUS Fire Department · CT105720248807638 $7,945,145
- PROCURE RETROREFLECTIVE VINYL SHEETING FOR TRAFFIC SIGNS FOR DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720268806124 $2,356,031
- PROCURE RETROREFLECTIVE VINYL SHEETING FOR NYC. DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720151202253 · ended 2018 $3,966,030
- TO PROCURE REFLECTIVE SHEETING FOR TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNS DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720110000421 · ended 2015 $2,828,713
- INSTALLING SELF CHKS MACHINES FOR ALL BPL BRANCHES Brooklyn Public Library · CT103820101418920 · ended 2010 $2,198,470
- ASSORTED VINYL SHEETINGS DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · CT185720115404007 · ended 2012 $1,546,097
- TO PROCURE REFLECTIVE VINYL SHEETING FOR TRAFFIC CONTROL DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720211201276 · ended 2026 $889,735
- PROCURE RETROREFLECTIVE VINYL SHEETING FOR TRAFFIC SIGNS. DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720181200527 · ended 2021 $457,256
- RETURN SORTER SYSTEM Brooklyn Public Library · CT103820151403092 · ended 2014 $174,732
- PROCURE 3M HIGH REFLECTIVE FLUORSCENT VINYL SHEETING FOR DOT DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720171201051 · ended 2022 $108,722
Largest payments, by purpose
The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.
- REPAIR-MAINTENANCE SELF-CONTAIN BREATHING APPARATUS Fire Department · FY2025 · 14 payments $3,094,077
- REPAIR-MAINTENANCE SELF-CONTAIN BREATHING APPARATUS Fire Department · FY2026 · 11 payments $2,052,611
- REPAIR-MAINTENANCE SELF-CONTAIN BREATHING APPARATUS Fire Department · FY2024 $527,292