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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="12-111" title_number="12" title_name="Organization and Supervision of State Procurement" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Procurement Organization">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Public employer” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a unit;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a county;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a municipality;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a county board of education; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>a special taxing district.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Except as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, “services” has the meaning stated in § 11–101 of this article.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Services” includes:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>construction–related services;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>architectural services;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>engineering services; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>energy performance contract services.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section applies to a procurement contract with an estimated value of $2,000,000 or more.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In response to a solicitation for a procurement contract issued by a public employer, a bidder shall disclose to the public employer the following:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>whether the bidder or any contractor that the bidder will subcontract with to perform the contract has plans, at the time the bid is submitted, to perform any services required under the contract outside the United States; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>if services required under the contract are anticipated to be performed outside the United States:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>where the services will be performed; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the reasons why it is necessary or advantageous to perform the services outside the United States.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a public employer may not knowingly contract for the following services unless the services are to be provided in the United States:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>architectural services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>construction services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>engineering services; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>energy performance contract services.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A public employer may contract for services listed in paragraph (1) of this subsection that are provided outside the United States, if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the services are not available in the United States;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the price of the services in the United States exceeds by an unreasonable amount the price of services provided outside the United States; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the quality of the services in the United States is substantially less than the quality of comparably priced services provided outside the United States.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Board shall adopt regulations defining the following terms for the purposes of this subsection:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>“unreasonable amount”; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“substantially less”.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
