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Baroni keys local chamber into Port Authority opportunities
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey offers many opportunities for small to midsized businesses to pursue contracts, its deputy executive director, Bill Baroni, told the Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce earlier this week.
Baroni noted at the Oct. 18 meeting that the authority had 2,003 separate contracts last year.
“The board is making sure businesses large and small have (the opportunity) to compete,” he said.
The Port Authority is undergoing an audit of its spending, including employee compensation and rising costs at the World Trade Center construction site, as governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo, of New York, “have made it clear that every dollar, every dime that the Port Authority has be spent wisely,” Baroni said. (Kitchenman, NJBIZ)
