Controversial DocGo quietly nabbed nearly $41M deal to run massive NYC migrant shelter

DocGo — the controversial COVID testing-turned-migrant-shelter firm — quietly nabbed a nearly $41 million no-bid contract with the Adams administration to run a massive asylum seeker site in Queens, The Post has learned.

The dodgy company has been managing one of the city’s largest migrant shelter sites at Austell Place in Long Island City since September under a one-year emergency deal that runs through the fall, according to previously unreported public records.

The opening of the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center (HERRC) was touted by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration last year as taking an innovative approach to the asylum seeker crisis by turning an empty office building into a 2,400-bed shelter site.

Notably missing from the Sept. 6, 2023 announcement was any mention of DocGo — which had its separate $432 million migrant housing and care contract rejected by the city comptroller’s office that same day.

Comptroller Brad Lander, in rejecting that contract, cited the DocGo’s lack of expertise and other controversies, which include allegations of mistreatment of migrants against the company.

Queens Councilwoman Julie Won skewered the newly-reported agreement as “unacceptable.”