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Focuses on brevity and fast award timelines, describes that only essential solicitation content is required, and clarifies rules defining small procurements (awards not exceeding $50,000) and risks of artificially dividing procurements. Provides steps for achieving at least two awardable bids or proposals for procurements expected to exceed $5,000, including outreach, and explains how to structure sections such as summary and background, minimum requirements, procurement officer identity, deliverables, and contract term.","Competitive Small Procurement Outline Template for Services - Overview\nThe essence of a Maryland small procurement is brevity and short time-frame between issuance and award.  There is no required standard template, per se, and usually only a price form and a very short standard small procurement contract* as attachments.  Accordingly, for the most part, the only content of a small procurement solicitation should be just what information is needed for vendors to properly respond.  i.e., there should be no fluff, just the essentials.\nGenerally, an entire small procurement solicitation will be 4-10 pages in total length, not counting the price form and standard contract.  And small procurements can be awarded within days, or at most a few weeks, compared to months for non-small procurements.\nBut because of the abbreviated nature of a small procurement, there are strict rules on what constitutes a small procurement (awards that don’t exceed $50,000), including a prohibition against what is deemed “artificially dividing” a non-small procurement into multiple small procurements.  And with few exceptions, the consequence of all responses to a small procurement solicitation exceeding the small procurement level, will be that the procurement will either need to be done over as a regular (non-small) procurement, or, for critical situations, declared an emergency and awarded under emergency procurement procedures, including being reported to the Board of Public Works and appearing on a Board agenda.\nFurther, for small procurements expected to exceed $5,000, the objective is to receive at least 2 “awardable” bids or proposals.  “Awardable” means the bidder/offeror is responsible and a bid is responsive or an offer (proposal) is technically acceptable. To enhance the likelihood of receiving at least 2 awardable bids/proposals, there should be direct outreach, not simply an eMM notice, to a number of vendors, including MBEs.\nThe suggested MDH small procurement outline and appropriate instructions follow.  As described below, certain of these sections may be deleted or added, with resulting section renumbering.\nWhereas, via the attached outline OPASS is providing instructions on how to create a small procurement solicitation document rather than producing a small procurement template, per se, individual MDH units and facilities are encouraged to produce their own semi-standard template. (Semi-standard because probably only about 25% of a small procurement solicitation can be prepared in advance as a template.  Most of each solicitation will have to be customized or completed in accordance with the particulars of what is being procured and applicable submission times and dates.)\nFor instance, a unit might have a template already completed with the name of the Department and unit and some or all of the following from the small procurement outline:\nidentity of the procurement officer and all contact information (outline item 3);\nprocurement method (outline item 6);\nsubmission instructions (outline item 7 b, c and e);\nbilling address (outline item 9 a);\nDepartment Obligations (outline item 10);\nThe Department Small Procurement Contract.\nIf a unit/facility has recurring small procurements of a similar nature (without artificially dividing a regular procurement), perhaps much more of the outline contents might be pre-developed in a template.\nUnits/facilities that pre-prepare or semi--prepare small procurement templates are encouraged to submit these partial templates to OPASS for review and comment.\n*The standard small procurement contract contains 2 required and 8 suggested abbreviated standard clauses and, when completed, will identify the contracting parties, have contact information, actual start and end dates, perhaps some deliverables narrative or incorporation by reference language, and signatures.\n\u000f\nMaryland Department of Health\nThe name of the issuing MDH unit\nTitle of solicitation\nBegin with “Request for Proposals for” or “Invitation fo","cbCaimep7XFU5PP9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimep7XFU5PP9","docx",43557,10,"English","en",105,"# Overview\n## Small procurement principles\n## Thresholds, awardability, and consequences\n## Outreach strategy\n## Building a semi-standard solicitation template\n# Template structure\n## Summary statement and background\n## Minimum bidder/offeror requirements\n## Procurement officer identity\n## Deliverables and contract term\n## Small procurement limit","[{\"question\":\"What are the key principles for designing a small procurement solicitation?\",\"answer\":\"Small procurements emphasize brevity and a short issuance-to-award timeframe. 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