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Board approves contract consolidations and reduced upset limits after projection errors; $11M engineering upset-limit approved
Summary
The Board of Estimates approved a consolidated locksmith services upset limit after DGS revised an overprojection downward, and approved an $11 million upset-limit agreement with Atkins to support DPW wastewater and consent-decree work. Officials emphasized tighter assumptions, interagency collaboration and building in-house capacity.
Baltimore's Board of Estimates on Jan. 7 approved several procurement items tied to a citywide push to consolidate facilities contracts and tighten procurement oversight.
Department of General Services Director Barak Yatira explained that DGS is consolidating locksmith services used by multiple city agencies into a single contract authority to reduce duplicative procurements and improve market leverage. An initial projection that produced a much larger upset limit had been…
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