Comptroller posts Board of Estimates Feb. 18 agenda with contracts, leases, procurement

The Baltimore City Comptroller’s office posted the Board of Estimates agenda on Feb. 11 for the Feb. 18 meeting, and the publicly available docket includes a $8,925,000 award for RFQ-000675 - Bus Lane Automated Traffic Violation Enforcement System (SB-26-10035) and a $53,488,488.06 3rd amendment/1st renewal for Contract B50006477 - Enterprise Support Staffing Services for the Office of Information and Technology (SB-25-14419).

The Feb. 18 Board of Estimates meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:00 AM in the Board of Estimates Chambers, City Hall, 2nd Floor, also referenced as the Hyman Pressman Board Room at 100 N. Holliday Street. Baltimore Legistar lists a virtual meeting link for the session and shows a separate Charter Review Special Committee meeting that day at 4:00 PM in the Reeves Room, 4th floor, City Hall, with a phone bridge at 1-408-418-9388, access code 2338 012 4949 and password Public.

The Comptroller’s Event page hosts the full agenda file under Download Resources and the Board of Estimates Dashboard provides background documentation searchable by SB number. Questions about the BOE materials may be directed to geoff.shannon@baltimorecity.gov. The Comptroller posting notes that the Items of Note are organized by agency and that a separate non-routine/discussion agenda will be announced at the meeting.

Procedural rules included with the posting remind vendors and members of the public that protests - written challenges to the award of a bid - must be received by noon on the Monday prior to the Board of Estimates meeting. Protest submissions are accepted by email at BOE.Clerk@baltimorecity.gov or by mail or hand delivery to Attn: Clerk, Board of Estimates, Room 204, City Hall, 100 N. Holliday Street. The Comptroller’s site also hosts the complete regulations on procurement, protests, minority and women-owned business enterprises (MWBE), and debarment/suspensions.

Other Items of Note on the City docket include SB-26-10246 - Steven Boeh v. Aaron Dail, et al., District Court of Maryland Case No. MJM-23-1020, amount listed $395,000.00; SB-26-10374 - Rate Facility Rate Adjustment - Baltimore Street Garage; SB-26-10187 - Award - Select Source - Agreement - On-Call Armed Security, $3,631,461.00; SB-25-13848 - FY2026 Operation and Maintenance Grant Award - Back River WWTP ENR, $2,177,758.00; SB-26-10166 - Cooperative Service Agreement - US DA-APHIS-WS and City of Baltimore, $110,442.12; and SB-26-10273 - RP24818R Cab Calloway Legends Park - Allied Contractors, $1,749,350.00.

Separate materials drawn from the state Board of Public Works for Feb. 18 are distinct from the City BOE docket. BPW items in the collected source material include a $71,000 payment to Riemer LLC to be delivered to Daniel M. Kobrin at the Office of the Attorney General, 200 Saint Paul Place, 20th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202; an IT contract item for Optibus Cloud-Native Scheduling Platform listed under EM-26-020-IT with MDOT contact Jamaal Turner at 410-767-8374 or jturner5@mdot.maryland.gov; and a Camp Fretterd Water Main Replacement procurement with bids such as Monumental Paving & Excavating, Inc. at $3,112,860.72 and Rustler Construction, Inc. at $3,362,179.00, with MES contact Matt Lapinsky at 410-729-8259 or mlapinsky@menv.com. BPW documents also reference the Baltimore Museum of Industry as a 501(c)(3) drawing nearly 100,000 visitors annually and a financing that “helps to preserve approximately seventeen full-time and thirty part-time positions.”

Reporters and interested parties should download the full BOE agenda PDF and attachments from the Comptroller’s Event page, search the Board of Estimates Dashboard by SB number for docket text and vendor details, and obtain the public virtual meeting link from Legistar or the Comptroller site. For document questions contact geoff.shannon@baltimorecity.gov and for protest submissions use BOE.Clerk@baltimorecity.gov or deliver materials to Room 204, City Hall, 100 N. Holliday Street.