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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="13-102.1" title_number="13" title_name="Source Selection -- State Procurement Contracts" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Methods of Source Selection">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A unit may not charge a fee to access eMaryland Marketplace.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to approval by the Board of Public Works, the Chief Procurement Officer may establish fees for the use of eMaryland Marketplace by an entity that publishes a notice of a procurement, conducts a procurement, or publishes a notice of award.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Chief Procurement Officer may not charge a unit, as defined in § 11–101 of this article, a fee under this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Subject to approval by the Board of Public Works, the Chief Procurement Officer, in consultation with the Department of Budget and Management, may establish fees for:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>training;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>strategic sourcing; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>administrative costs.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>There is an Operations Revenue Fund in the Department of General Services.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Fund is a special, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7–302 of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall hold the Fund separately, and the Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Fund consists of any fees imposed and collected under subsection (b)(1) or (c) of this section and § 13–226(c) of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The Fund shall be used by the Department of General Services to cover the actual documented direct and indirect operating expenses of the Office of State Procurement.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
