Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Subtitle 07 - MARYLAND TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY › Chapter 11.07.06 - Transportation Public-Private Partnership Program › Section 11.07.06.03 - 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) "Authority " means the Maryland
				Transportation Authority.
(2)
				"Budget committees" has the meaning stated in State Finance and Procurement
				Article, § 10A -101, Annotated Code of Maryland
(3) "Chairman" has the meaning stated in
				Transportation Article, §
										4-202(a),
				Annotated Code of Maryland.
(4)
				"Department" means the Maryland Department of Transportation and its modal
				administrations.
(5) "Executive "
				means the Executive Director of the Authority.
(6) "Industry forum" means a presolicitation
				information gathering event that may include public and private sector
				participants.
(7) "Industry review
				meeting" means a meeting during the solicitation process with shortlisted
				private entities.
(8) "Members of
				the Authority" means those persons that compose the Authority Board and are
				appointed in accordance with Transportation Article, §
										4-202(b),
				Annotated Code of Maryland
(9)
				"Multistep 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;
(c) Issuance of a draft
				request for proposals;
(d) Industry
				review meetings; and
(e) Issuance
				of a final request for proposals.
(10) "Private entity" has the meaning stated
				in State Finance and Procurement Article, § 10A -101, Annotated Code of
				Maryland
(11) "Program" means the
				structure, process, methodology, and terms and conditions applicable to the
				Authority'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
(12)
				"Public infrastructure asset" has the meaning stated in State Finance and
				Procurement Article, § 10A -101, Annotated Code of Maryland
(13) "Public notice of solicitation" has the
				meaning stated in State Finance and Procurement Article, § 10A -101,
				Annotated Code of Maryland
(14)
				"Public-private partnership" has the meaning stated in State Finance and
				Procurement Article, § 10A -101, Annotated Code of Maryland
(15) "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
				Authority.
(16) "Reporting agency"
				has the meaning stated in State Finance and Procurement Article, § 10A
				-101, Annotated Code of Maryland
(17) "Responsibility determination" has the
				meaning stated in State Finance and Procurement Article, § 10A -101,
				Annotated Code of Maryland
(18)
				"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.
(19)
				"Steering Committee" is the Authority's Transportation Public-Private
				Partnership Steering Committee established to advise the Chairman and members
				of the Authority on the structure and implementation of the Authority's Program
				and composed of Authority and other State employees identified by the Executive
				Director