ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor

S.B. 416

Procurement - Board of Contract Appeals - Jurisdiction over State Claims

FOR the purpose of authorizing an interested party to appeal a final action on a
procurement contract claim made by a State agency to the State Board of
Contract Appeals; altering the jurisdiction of the Appeals Board; clarifying that
certain claims procedures for a procurement contract apply only to a claim by a
contractor; establishing certain contract claims procedures for a State contract
claim; requiring a State contract claim to include certain information; requiring
the procurement officer to review a State contract claim; authorizing the
procurement officer to request additional information or to discuss or negotiate
a State contract claim with the State agency or the contractor; requiring the
procurement officer to prepare a proposed decision on a State contract claim
under certain circumstances; requiring a procurement officer to include certain
information and the supporting rationale in a proposed decision; providing for
review of a proposed decision by certain persons under certain circumstances;
authorizing a reviewing authority to approve, disapprove, or modify a proposed
decision; establishing that approval, disapproval, or modification of a proposed
decision by the reviewing authority constitutes the final action of the State
agency on the contract claim; authorizing a reviewing authority to remand with
instructions a disapproved proposed decision to the procurement officer;
authorizing the award of interest to a State agency under a procurement
contract claim; and generally relating to the authority of the State Board of
Contract Appeals over a procurement contract claim made by a State agency.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - State Finance and Procurement
Section 15-201, 15-215(b), and 15-219
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2001 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Finance and Procurement

Section 15-211, 15-217(a), 15-218, 15-220(a), and 15-222(a) and (b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2001 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - State Finance and Procurement

Section 15-219.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(2001 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - State Finance and Procurement

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