Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB500: Procurement Reform Act of 2025
Status: Chaptered, May 20, 2025
Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; requiring the Department of Information Technology to establish a technical procurement team; altering the authority of the Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transportation Authority to engage in procurement for certain supplies and services; etc.
What the bill says
An act concerning Procurement Reform Act of 2025 FOR the purpose of authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; requiring the Department of Information Technology to establish a technical procurement team…
From the enrolled text, June 2, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Procurement Reform Act of 2025 FOR the purpose of authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; requiring the Department of Information Technology to establish a technical procurement team; altering the authority of the Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transportation Authority to engage in procurement for certain supplies and services for transportation-related activities; authorizing the head of a unit or a designee of the head of the unit to designate small business preferences under certain circumstances; altering certain dollar values at which a unit must publish notice of certain procurements, submit certain reports, and designate a procurement for the small business reserve, at which a procurement officer may require bid security or other security on certain procurements, and at which certain apprenticeship requirements apply; requiring oral presentations for certain procurements under certain circumstances; authorizing the Chief Procurement Officer or the Chief Procurement Officer's designee to approve the use of noncompetitive negotiation for certain classes of procurements; altering certain authority to authorize a procurement officer to make a procurement on an expedited basis and to approve the cancellation of a solicitation or rejection of bids or proposals; requiring …