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Council questions procurement after single-bid snow-removal contract comes to the floor
Summary
Council members challenged the process used to award a winter snow-removal contract after staff said the RFP was posted online but not placed in a local newspaper, and the bid-opening was not broadly publicized; a motion to table the contract was proposed and votes recorded.
The Glenarden City Council debated a proposed snow-removal contract for the 2025–26 winter season after members raised procedural concerns about how the bid was advertised and opened.
Clerk materials identified RH Hilarios as the selected vendor for snow removal. Several councilmembers said the RFP had not been published in a newspaper of general circulation in Glenarden as required by the charter. One councilmember said the bid posting period ran from Oct. 14 to Oct. 29 and that only one bid was timely received.…
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