Materials, supplies, equipment, and services may be procured by open market purchase or sole source award when the amount involved is anticipated to be less than $2,500 in the aggregate on an annual basis for a particular procurement. Procurement by open market purchase or sole source award in amounts over $2,500, but less than $10,000, is permitted when the materials, supplies, equipment, and services are of a unique and special nature, or when public exigency will not permit the delay incident to competition. In this event, a memorandum justifying the action and signed by the Executive Director shall be filed with the official records of the Authority.

Authority: Natural Resources Article, §§3-905(b) and 3-921, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: December 26, 1980 (7:26 Md. R. 2424)

Chapter revised effective September 27, 1982 (9:19 Md. R. 1896)

Chapter revised effective March 19, 2001 (28:5 Md. R. 552)

Regulation .02 amended effective December 21, 2015 (42:25 Md. R. 1546)

Regulation .03A amended effective December 21, 2015 (42:25 Md. R. 1546)

Regulation .06 amended effective December 21, 2015 (42:25 Md. R. 1546)

Regulation .16 adopted effective December 11, 2003 (30:24 Md. R. 1744)