Hebrew Institute For Deaf & Exceptional Children, Inc.

City-funded organization

Hebrew Institute For Deaf & Exceptional Children, Inc., known as HIDEC, operates a preschool at 1401 Avenue I in Brooklyn offering New York City's 3-K and Pre-K for All programs alongside private early childhood care, with programming for children with special needs including deaf and hard-of-hearing children (per its own website, hidec.org). Checkbook NYC shows it has been awarded $27 million in New York City Department of Education and Administration for Children's Services contracts since 2007, with $21.5 million paid to date and no contracts active as of August 2026. Its largest award, a $13 million "Preschool Students With Disabilities" contract that ended in 2012, carries a "Government/legal mandate" award-method badge. Overall, 77% of the organization's total contract value ($21 million across 7 contracts) was awarded without a fresh competitive bid, per Checkbook NYC, including several UPK and "4410-Enhancement" contracts individually marked "Renewal (not re-bid)" or "Negotiated contract."

Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $27,172,598 awarded since 2007
Paid to date
$21,610,500
Won without a fresh bid
77% of contract value · $20,982,232 · 7 contracts

Holds contracts at

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).

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