An Act To Protect Taxpayers by Regulating Personal Services Contracts
Maine Legislature, Session 127, LD 1166
Committee: State and Local Government
Sponsors: MARTIN, PATRICK, BRYANT, DOORE, FOWLE, GILBERT, HERBIG, POULIOT, SAUCIER, SAVIELLO
Amends: 5 MRSA §1813-B

Legislative Document 
No. 1166 
H.P. 800 
House of Representatives, March 31, 2015 
An Act To Protect Taxpayers by Regulating Personal Services 
Contracts 
Reference to the Committee on State and Local Government suggested and ordered printed. 
ROBERT B. HUNT 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative MARTIN of Sinclair. 
Cosponsored by Senator PATRICK of Oxford and 
Representatives: BRYANT of Windham, DOORE of Augusta, FOWLE of Vassalboro, 
GILBERT of Jay, HERBIG of Belfast, POULIOT of Augusta, SAUCIER of Presque Isle, 
Senator: SAVIELLO of Franklin. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
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. 
SUMMARY 
This bill requires the Director of the Bureau of General Services to coordinate with 
all state departments and agencies to make cost-savings information available on the 
department's website for the winners of all competitively bid service contracts for the 
State. Cost-savings information for a contract with a new contractor must, where 
applicable, include the 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. Cost-
savings information for a contract with a contractor renewing or extending a contract for 
the first time must include details of the expiring contract's cost savings and details of 
continued cost-savings at or below costs in the current contract adjusted for inflation. 
Cost-savings information for a contract with a contractor renewing or extending a 
contract beyond a first renewal or extension must include details on continued cost-
savings at or below costs in the current contract adjusted for inflation. This bill requires 
that the Director of the Bureau of General Services, with the approval of the 
Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services, establish practices and 
procedures to make the cost-savings information available on the department's website 
and gives the director the authority to do this by rule.