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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="16-404" title_number="16" title_name="Montgomery County" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Service Contracts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Executive Director  may not certify that the Montgomery Commission has complied with the requirements of this subtitle unless the Montgomery Commission:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>has taken steps to consider alternatives to the service contract, including reorganization, reevaluation of service, and reevaluation of performance;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>has consulted with the certified representative of any Montgomery Commission employees who will be adversely affected if the Montgomery Commission enters into the service contract; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>has demonstrated, based on a cost comparison analysis utilizing good faith estimates, that the Montgomery Commission will save, by entering into a service contract, at least an amount equal to the lesser of $200,000 or 20% of the estimated net present value of the cost of the service contract.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Montgomery Commission shall estimate and compare at least the following in the cost comparison analysis:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>direct costs, including fringe benefits and the assumption that the contractor will pay employees who perform work under the service contract, at a minimum, the county living wage rate for Montgomery County;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>indirect overhead costs properly allocable to the bargaining unit work or service contract according to generally accepted accounting principles; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>any costs associated with unemployment compensation or outplacement assistance for displaced employees.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
