The Secretary of General Services, the Secretary of Transportation, and the Chancellor of the University System of Maryland each shall adopt regulations to establish procedures for: (1) compiling and maintaining a comprehensive bidder’s list of small businesses; (2) locating potential sources for various construction related services, supplies, and services and affirmatively seeking to locate potential minority business enterprise sources for those construction related services, supplies, and services; (3) helping small businesses to comply with the procedures for bidding on procurement contracts; (4) examining requests for construction related services, supplies, and services to determine when an invitation for bids may be designated for the Small Business Preference Program; (5) bidding for a procurement contract designated for a small business preference; (6) simplifying procurement specifications and terms, to increase the opportunities for small business participation; (7) investigating the responsibility of bidders on small business preferences; and (8) explaining to a small business the reason for which its bid for a small business preference was rejected.
Maryland Legal Code