Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Subtitle 01 - OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY › Chapter 11.01.17 - Public-Private Partnership Program › Section 11.01.17.03 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. In this chapter,
				the following terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "Budget Committees" has the meaning
				stated in State Finance and Procurement Article, § 10A -101, Annotated
				Code of Maryland.
(2) "Department"
				means the Maryland Department of Transportation.
(3) "Industry forum" means a pre-solicitation
				information gathering event that may include public and private sector
				participants.
(4) "Industry review
				meeting" means a meeting during the solicitation process with shortlisted
				private entities.
(5) "Modal
				Administrations" means the State Highway Administration, the Maryland Transit
				Administration, the Maryland Aviation Administration, the Maryland Port
				Administration, and the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration.
(6) "Multi-step solicitation process" means a
				public-private partnership solicitation process that includes some or all of
				the following steps:
(a) Issuance of a request
				for qualifications;
(b) Preproposal
				conference; issuance of a draft request for proposals;
(c) Industry review meetings; and
(d) Issuance of a final request for
				proposals.
(7) "Private
				entity" has the meaning stated in State Finance and Procurement Article, §
				10A -101, Annotated Code of Maryland.
(8) "Program" means the structure, process,
				methodology and terms and conditions applicable to the Department's
				development, solicitation, evaluation, award, and delivery of transportation
				public infrastructure assets for which it is responsible in accordance with
				State Finance and Procurement Article, § 10A -101, Annotated Code of
				Maryland.
(9) "Public
				infrastructure asset" has the meaning stated in State Finance and Procurement
				Article, § 10A -101, Annotated Code of Maryland.
(10) "Public notice of solicitation" has the
				meaning stated in State Finance and Procurement Article, § 10A -101,
				Annotated Code of Maryland.
(11)
				"Public-private partnership" has the meaning stated in State Finance and
				Procurement Article, § 10A -101, Annotated Code of Maryland.
(12) "Public-private partnership candidate
				concept application" means the documentation that must be submitted to the
				Steering Committee to initiate and inform a high-level review of a
				public-private partnership concept generated from within the
				Department.
(13) "Reporting agency"
				has the meaning stated in State Finance and Procurement Article, § 10A
				-101, Annotated Code of Maryland.
(14) "Responsibility determination" has the
				meaning stated in State Finance and Procurement Article, § 10A -101,
				Annotated Code of Maryland.
(15)
				"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Maryland Department of
				Transportation.
(16) "Shortlisted
				private entity" means a private entity that has been both qualified based on
				its response to a request for qualifications and selected as one of the highest
				qualified private entities, allowing them to continue in the solicitation
				process.
(17) "Steering Committee"
				is the Transportation Public-Private Partnerships Steering Committee
				established to advise the Secretary on the structure and implementation of the
				Department's Program and comprised of Department and other State employees
				identified by the Secretary.