LIC COM LLC
Lobbying client
The Long Island City food-service company doing business as Kommissary, which runs catering and meal-prep operations for New York City schools, senior centers, and shelters. Since 2022 it has been NYC Health + Hospitals' main contractor for asylum-seeker meal programs, and by its own account now serves roughly 50,000 meals a day across shelter sites. It filed 14 lobbying disclosures since 2024, lobbying 13 council members through three firms on nonprofit partnerships and its bid for a new city meals contract, and has held $70.9 million in city contracts since 2020.
- Council members lobbied
- 13
- Filings (since 2024)
- 14
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $138,661
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Standardized Services
- City contracts (active)
- $280,035 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $70,958,769 · 9 since 2020, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $37,654,533
- Won without a fresh bid
- 67% of contract value · $47,386,000 · 3 contracts
- Based in
- New York, NY
Lobbied these council members
- Pierina Ana Sanchez Council Member, District 14 (Bronx)
- Oswald J. Feliz Council Member, District 15 (Bronx)
- Althea V. Stevens Council Member, District 16 (Bronx)
- Amanda C. Farías Council Member, District 18 (Bronx)
- Linda Lee Council Member, District 23 (Queens)
- Julie Won Council Member, District 26 (Queens)
- Crystal Hudson Council Member, District 35 (Brooklyn)
- Alexa Avilés Council Member, District 38 (Brooklyn)
- Darlene Mealy Council Member, District 41 (Brooklyn)
- Gale A. Brewer Council Member, District 6 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Bolton-St. Johns, LLC Lobbyist firm
- James F. Capalino & Associates, Inc. Lobbyist firm
- Powell Solutions LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service City agency
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
- Department of Sanitation City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Sanitation City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
- Housing Preservation and Development City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Diana Ayala
- Erik Bottcher
- Keith Powers
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Determination of Board or Commission - in connection with serving as the Client's government relations and strategic advisor.
- Procurement - Advancing nonprofit partnerships
- Procurement - LIC COM LLC currently provides around 40,000 meals/day to asylum-seekers as a sub-contractor. Now it's applying for the newly-released open-ended RFP to contract with NYC regarding…
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).
- 85725B0067-DOC Eggs, Milk, Dairy - Class 3 (Eggs). 1-year RC DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720268801087 $280,035
- COVID-19 Older Adult Food Access Program Department of Sanitation · CT182720211413357 · ended 2021 $24,560,000
- Child Adult Care Food Program Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020248806060 · ended 2026 $22,795,991
- COVID-19 Adult Food Access Program Department of Sanitation · CT182720201425025 · ended 2020 $12,170,000
- COVID-19 Older Adult Food Access Program Department of Sanitation · CT182720211405357 · ended 2021 $10,656,000
- 85725B0084-ACS - Baking Products and Baked Goods - CLASS 1. DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720268801048 · ended 2026 $366,543
- Meals for DOHMH ICS/Vaccination Sites Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620218801953 · ended 2021 $100,000
- MWBE-SERVICES Department of Education · CT104020243090186 · ended 2024 $25,000
- 85725B0085- ACS - Beverages - CLASS 2 (OJ). 1-Year Requireme DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720268800984 · ended 2026 $5,200
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.
- COVID-19 Older Adult Food Access Program Department of Sanitation · FY2021 · 23 payments $8,331,695
- COVID-19 Older Adult Food Access Program Department of Sanitation · FY2022 · 15 payments $3,169,924
- Child Adult Care Food Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 · 26 payments $2,424,360
- Child Adult Care Food Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 · 21 payments $1,940,490
- Child Adult Care Food Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2027 · 2 payments $168,749
- Provider of Food services Housing Preservation and Development · FY2024 $63,249
- Provider of Food services Housing Preservation and Development · FY2025 $27,654
Where their influence converges
Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in
- Althea V. Stevens It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 4 agencies in their committees' jurisdiction
- Amanda C. Farías It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Gale A. Brewer It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 2 agencies in their committees' jurisdiction
- Linda Lee It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 3 agencies in their committees' jurisdiction
- Oswald J. Feliz It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 2 agencies in their committees' jurisdiction
- Pierina Ana Sanchez It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
Federal awards
Federal awards made directly to this organization in fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Each amount is what the federal government has OBLIGATED on that award as recorded on USAspending.gov as of 2026-08-31 — money committed, not money paid out. These are prime awards only: federal money this
- Department of Justice FOOD, OILS AND FATS · Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Contract $13,900