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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 30-2 Prequalification requirements.">
  <section prefix="§" num="30-2" heading="Prequalification requirements.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Prequalification criteria.">
      <para num="(1)">Any person who submits to the City a bid or who contracts with the City to be a health care carrier or to provide health care services to Baltimore City employees or persons receiving health care through any entity funded by the City must prequalify pursuant to &lt;cite data-doc="City of Baltimore, Md., Charter" data-path="VI"&gt;City Charter Article VI&lt;/cite&gt;, §11(g), and the rules, regulations, and standards adopted by the Board of Estimates.</para>
      <para num="(2)">The criteria for the prequalification of health care carriers shall include, but not be limited to:<para num="(i)">experience levels;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">financial history; and</para>
        <para num="(iii)">ethnic diversity of their respective provider panels.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Same.">Each health care carrier interested in doing business with, or continuing to do business with the City of Baltimore in this regard shall apply for prequalification and be so prequalified.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §27C(b)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 96-004</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-503</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
