Garrett County Purchasing Dept.
VENDOR'S GUIDE
This guide is designed to assist new vendors in understanding the basic procedures of centralized procurement within Garrett County Government. Garrett County welcomes vendors to do business with the County and will attempt to provide any assistance and information that may help a new vendor to better understand the County's procedures.
Garrett County Government seeks to fulfill its needs for commodities and services through open competitive bidding wherever practical and possible. The fundamental objective of the procurement process is to obtain maximum value for the tax dollar while maintaining a reputation of fairness and integrity by fostering maximum competition.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Who is responsible for purchasing for Garrett County Government?
The Purchasing
Department is responsible for centralized procurement of goods and
services for County funded departments and agencies. It
is the duty of Purchasing Department to have the goods and services
available to the using departments and agencies by buying the right
quality in the right quantity at the right time from the right supplier
at the right price. The
Purchasing Department also administers the procurement of professional
services and construction for capital projects.
Garrett
County Purchasing Department
203 South Fourth Street, Room 208
Oakland, Maryland 21550
Phone: (301) 334-5003
Fax: (301) 334-1985
Email Address: purchasing@garrettcounty.org
How can I become a vendor?
A list of
vendors is maintained on an automated Vendor's List by the Purchasing
Department. Vendors who would like to be placed on this list must
first complete a Vendor Application, specifying commodities or services
they wish to provide to the County. Vendor Applications can be electronically
filed from our web site or are available by contacting the Garrett
County Purchasing Department.
Vendors
on the Vendor's List will be contacted when the commodity/service
which they wish to provide is needed by Garrett County Government.
If a vendor does not respond to three (3) consecutive procurement
opportunities, the vendor's name will be removed from the list.
How will I know of procurement opportunities?
All formal
Invitations to Bid or Requests for Proposals will be advertised
for two (2) consecutive weeks in The Republican Newspaper
(local newspaper), on our web site and will occassionally be listed
on the Maryland
Contract Weekly Homepage. In addition, capital projects
are advertised with the Dodge Reports.