An Act To Protect Taxpayers by Regulating Personal Services Contracts

Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §1813-B  is enacted to read:

§ 1813-B.  Cost-savings information available through the Internet

The Director of the Bureau of General Services shall make cost-savings information for the award winners of all competitively bid contracts for services for the State available through the department's publicly accessible site on the Internet. For a contract with a new contractor, the cost-savings information must, where applicable, include projected savings of the contract over the State's costs of providing the same service and include the amount of savings over the previous contractor's contract. For a contract with a contractor renewing or extending a contract for the first time, the cost-savings information must, where applicable, include details of cost-savings for the expiring contract over the previous contractor's costs and details of continued cost-savings at or below costs in the current contract adjusted for inflation. For a contract with a contractor renewing or extending a contract beyond a first renewal or extension, the cost-savings information must include details on continued cost-savings at or below costs in the current contract adjusted for inflation. The Director of the Bureau of General Services shall coordinate with all departments and agencies in the State to ensure the collection of the cost-savings information described in this section. The Director of the Bureau of General Services, with the approval of the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services, shall establish by rule practices and procedures to make the cost-savings information available on the department's publicly accessible site on the Internet. Rules adopted pursuant to this section are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

Sec. 2. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

Purchases - Division of 0007

Initiative: Provides funds for one part-time Management Analyst II position and related costs to track contract information and make it available on a publicly accessible site on the Internet.

GENERAL FUND	2015-16	2016-17
POSITIONS - LEGISLATIVE COUNT	0.500	0.500
Personal Services	$27,403	$37,273
All Other	$1,866	$2,490
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$29,269	$39,763