City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0164R

• File #: 09-0164R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Procurement Approval Process Study
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 10/19/2009
• In control: Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee
• Final action: 2/1/2010
• Title: Informational Hearing - Procurement Approval Process Study FOR the purpose of requesting representatives of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, the Baltimore Economy and Efficiency Foundation, and the Baltimore City Director of Finance to report to the City Council on the recent Procurement Approval Process Study of Baltimore City government.
• Sponsors: William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, President Young, James B. Kraft, Helen L. Holton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Mary Pat Clarke, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Rochelle Spector, Belinda Conaway, Warren Branch
• Indexes: Procurement, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/1/2010	0	City Council	Adopted
11/16/2009	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
10/22/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/19/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
10/19/2009	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R

Introduced by: Councilmember Cole

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Procurement Approval Process Study

FOR the purpose of requesting representatives of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, the Baltimore Economy and Efficiency Foundation, and the Baltimore City Director of Finance to report to the City Council on the recent Procurement Approval Process Study of Baltimore City government.
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WHEREAS, The National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, in its procurement management audit of the City of Baltimore in 2001, noted that the current thresholds in place created a “slow and burdensome process” that is “cumbersome and considered an obstacle by City agencies”.

WHEREAS, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies was engaged by the Baltimore Economy and Efficiency Foundation to comparatively analyze the procurement approval process in Baltimore City, other home-rule Maryland counties, and selected cities around the country.

WHEREAS, The Johns Hopkins study found that:

· Baltimore City’s Charter includes far more prescriptive language than any other home-rule locality examined.

· When municipal charters are not regularly reviewed and updated, inflation causes specific codified dollar amounts to lose the relationship with economic conditions that the charter’s framers intended.

· Sluggishness in the purchasing system imposes costs on all parties: agencies that need goods and services to fulfill t...