City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0076R

• File #: 08-0076R
• Version: 0
• Name: Investigative Hearing - CitiBuy - Prompt Payment to Small and Minority Businesses and 2nd Tier Sub-Contractors
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 10/27/2008
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/24/2011
• Title: Investigative Hearing - CitiBuy - Prompt Payment to Small and Minority Businesses and 2nd Tier Sub-Contractors FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City Bureau of Purchases and the Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development to report to the City Council on the number of small and minority businesses and 2nd tier sub-contractors that are contracted to deliver goods and services to City agencies; the average length of time between date of delivery of goods and services provided by small and minority businesses and other 2nd tier sub-contractors, and the date marking receipt of compensation for services rendered; and a comprehensive plan to revise current policies to ensure prompt payment to small and minority businesses and 2nd tier contractors.
• Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, James B. Kraft, Warren Branch, Bill Henry, William H. Cole, IV, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, Agnes Welch, Belinda Conaway, Mary Pat Clarke, Robert Curran, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: CitiBuy, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/24/2011	0	City Council	Withdrawn
9/14/2009	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
10/30/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/30/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/30/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/30/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/30/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/27/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
10/27/2008	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
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Rawlings-Blake

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Investigative Hearing - CitiBuy - Prompt Payment to Small and Minority Businesses and 2nd Tier Sub-Contractors

FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City Bureau of Purchases and the Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development to report to the City Council on the number of small and minority businesses and 2nd tier sub-contractors that are contracted to deliver goods and services to City agencies; the average length of time between date of delivery of goods and services provided by small and minority businesses and other 2nd tier sub-contractors, and the date marking receipt of compensation for services rendered; and a comprehensive plan to revise current policies to ensure prompt payment to small and minority businesses and 2nd tier contractors.
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State and Local Procurement Preferences: A Survey, a research paper published by the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc., an international not-for-profit educational and technical organization of public purchasing agencies since 1944, found that government has always used its purchasing power as a tool to achieve certain social and political purposes. An increasing number of jurisdictions have interpreted their use of purchasing power as a tool in addressing social and economic imbalances that have developed along gende...