Active SLED Opportunity · MARYLAND · CECIL COUNTY
AI Summary
Cecil County seeks a part-time Drug Court Defense Attorney to represent participants in sanction hearings. Requires Maryland Bar admission, availability Fridays, and legal expertise. Submit quotes by April 30, 2026, via OpenGov Portal. Contract term July 2026 to June 2027.
Cecil County Drug Court Program under the auspice of the Circuit Court for Cecil County is looking to fill a part-time position (approximately 5-10 hours per week) in our Drug Court Program. The individual/law firm will be responsible for representing Drug Court participants at their Drug Court Review and Sanction Hearings.
These General Conditions are a part of the Contract. In case of any conflict with the Special Provisions, the Special Provisions shall govern.
Cecil County, Maryland is required to adhere to Cecil County Code, Section 92 Purchasing, concerning good public purchasing practices using a competitive process (RFQ). All available information may be reviewed on the Cecil County, Maryland website (www.ccgov.org).
All quotes submitted electronically shall be submitted via OpenGov Procurement Portal. Submittals received through other means shall not be opened.
The electronic time and date stamp will serve as the verification of the submittal requirement.
ELECTRONIC SUBMITTAL PROCESS
To be considered, Quotes shall be received by the closing date and time via OpenGov Procurement Portal.
Late Quotes will not be considered. Bidders are strongly encouraged not to wait until the last minute to submit quotes. The time stated on the OpenGov Portal will be definitive of the time of receipt.
After submitting a Quote via OpenGov Procurement Portal and upon successful receipt by the County thereof, Bidder will receive an auto-receipt email from OpenGov Procurement. This receipt is proof that the quotes has been received by the Purchasing Division and should be retained for Bidder’s records. The County has no obligation to consider any quote for which an auto-receipt was not generated.
The Contract may be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder(s) whose bids comply with all the requirements prescribed. In acceptance of bids, the County will be guided by consideration of the interest of the public and the County shall be under no obligation to accept the lowest bid.
Bids may be rejected if they show any omissions, alterations of form, additions not called for, conditional or alternate bids, or irregularities of any kind. To ensure fair competition unresponsive bids or bids obviously unbalanced may be rejected. If there is any discrepancy between the unit price and the extended price, the unit price shall prevail.
Cecil County, Maryland, reserves the right to accept or reject any bid and to procure no or any quantity of goods or services that are the subject of this RFQ, as deemed in its best interest of the County by the Purchasing Agent.
All contracts and/or quantities are contingent on budgeting constraints. All awards are based on Total Bid Amounts. The County reserves the right to add or delete items from the bid package due to budget constraints, which may result in changing the Total Bid Amount. The awarded vendor will be notified of any changes resulting in a bid price change.
The individual/law firm will be responsible for:
A Notice to Proceed/Purchase Order will be sent to the Contractor by Cecil County, Maryland.
A Juris Doctorate Degree and admission to the bar in the state of Maryland and in good standing with the Department of Assessment and Taxation. Must be available each Friday, as well as times Drug Court participants require discussion regarding representation for sanction hearings. Strong commitment to helping the community and ensuring equal access to justice.
(a) The Bidder must be in compliance with the laws regarding conducting business in the State of Maryland.
All Bidders shall provide a copy Certificate of Status from the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation, evidencing the Bidder is in good standing with the State of Maryland.
See: https://dat.maryland.gov/businesses/Pages/Internet-Certificate-of-Status.aspx for information on obtaining the Certificate of Status. Certificates are not available for trade names, name reservations, government agencies, sole proprietorships, and some other accounts as these are not legal entities and thus are not required for these categories of bidders. For more information on the Certificate of Status please see https://dat.maryland.gov/Pages/sdatforms.aspx.
(b) All bidders shall provide a copy of current business license for State of Maryland.
(c) Cecil County reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to extend the date this documentation must be provided. The Bidder’s inability to provide this documentation could result in the bid being rejected.
(d) All proposers must be in good standing with Cecil County, Maryland. Proposers must meet any outstanding taxes, fees, or accounts with Cecil County.
All quotes are required to be submitted electronically via OpenGov Procurement.
The salary is grand funded on a Fiscal Year basis.
A Purchase Order will be sent to the contractor upon award of the contract. All payments will be remitted within thirty (30) days (net 30) upon receipt of an invoice. Payment/Final payment will be remitted upon acceptance of the completed project and receipt of final invoice.
All invoices shall be submitted to:
Cecil County Drug Court
Adult Drug Treatment Court
Cecil County Circuit Courthouse
129 E Main Street, Room 304
Elkton, MD 21921
All questions shall be asked using the question & answer feature via OpenGov Procurement by 3:00 pm on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
The Contract term once awarded is July 1, 2026 (or execution of contract) through June 30, 2027 unless the Circuit Court or the awarded Contractor requests an earlier termination of the contract with 30 days written notice.
Respondent shall demonstrate within their proposal that they possess the necessary education and experience to perform the work described herein. This shall be accomplished with the provision of the following groups of information:
The recommendation of the proposal review committee shall be based on the evaluations using the following criteria:
Drug Court may request additional information or clarification of proposals and reserves the right to select the response to this solicitation which it believes will best serve its business and operational requirements, considering the evaluation criteria set forth above.
Drug Court hereby reserves the right to solicit best and final offers only from a short list of respondents receiving the highest evaluated ratings.
Bid prices shall remain firm for one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of the bid opening. All contracts and/or quantities are contingent on budgetary constraints.
Pricing must include all labor, delivery, materials, tools, and equipment to perform work.
The proposal review committee will review and evaluate all proposals received in response to this solicitation. The proposal review committee may require oral presentations from a short list of respondents judged to be reasonably susceptible of being selected for award.
The Drug Court reserves the right to enter negotiations with the respondents regarding questions about the technical and financial proposals and resolve differences. The Drug Court reserves the right to solicit a best and final offer from each remaining respondent.
Drug Court reserves the right to determine which respondents have met the minimum basic requirements of this solicitation. Drug Court shall have the sole right to determine whether any deviation from the requirements of this solicitation is substantial in nature, and the Drug Court may reject in whole or in part any and all proposals, waive minor irregularities, and negotiate with all responsible respondents in any matter deemed necessary to serve the best interest of the Court.
Drug Court reserves the right to award to multiple individuals/law firms.
The Contract may be awarded to the lowest responsible, responsive bidder. Cecil County, Maryland reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive technicalities. All contract awards are based upon budgetary constraints.
Solicitation packages can be downloaded on Cecil County's OpenGov Procurement Portal (https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/cecil/projects/248261 ) as a PDF document no charge.
Changes or addendums to this bid will be posted on the County's OpenGov Procurement Portal.
The County is not responsible for information obtained from sources outside the Cecil County Purchasing Office, including downloads from the County website. Vendors are directly responsible for obtaining updates, changes, or addendums either from the updated webpage or by contacting the Purchasing Office.
In carrying out any of the provisions of this Contract or in exercising any power of authority granted to him thereby, there shall be no personal liability upon the County, or his authorized agent being understood that in such matters he acts as the agent or representative of the County.
Cecil County is subject to the Maryland Public Information Act and may be required to release bid submissions in accordance with the Act.
Any materials the Vendor deems to be proprietary or copyrighted must be marked as such; however, the material may still be subject to analysis under the Maryland Public Information Act.
The Contractor, at all times, shall observe and comply with all federal, state, municipal and/or local laws, ordinances, rules and regulations in any manner affecting the work to be done and all such orders or decrees as may exist at present and those which may be enacted later, of bodies or tribunals having jurisdiction or authority over and shall indemnify and save harmless the Owner and all its officers, agents and employees against any claim or liability arising from or based on the violation of any such laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, order or decree, whether such violations by the Contractor or by any sub-Contractor or any of their agents and/or employees.
Cecil County, Maryland reserves the right to terminate this contract by a ten (10) day written notice should the quality of the work/products become inferior, or the delivery service becomes poor.
Should the Contractor believe that it is entitled to any additional compensation or time, over or beyond the compensation or time stipulated in the Contract documents, or for compensation or an extension of contract time over or beyond that allowed or approved by the County for damages, losses, expenses, or delays alleged to have been sustained by it in connection with this Contract, the Contractor shall file a written notice of claim thereof with the County prior to incurring any costs for which it may claim a right to additional compensation. The written notice shall be on company letterhead and addressed to the authorized County Representative. Unless otherwise specified or required, in the events of alleged delay to the schedule, such notice shall be given no later than twenty (20) days after the onset of such alleged damages, losses, expenses, or delays.
Unless otherwise specified, within thirty (30) days after giving the required notice, but not later than final payment, the Contractor shall file with the County a written, itemized statement of the details and amount of such claim of damage, loss, expenses, or delay. Unless the Contractor timely files its written notice of claim and statement of costs as prescribed herein, the Contractor’s claim for such additional compensation shall be absolutely invalidated; and it shall not be entitled to any compensation on account of such alleged damage, loss, expenses, or delay.
The County shall ascertain the facts and shall approve an equitable adjustment to the Contract amount and/or time when, in the judgment of the County, the findings of fact warrant it. The County shall issue a written decision on the claim within thirty (30) days after receipt of the Contractor’s itemized statement of the claim unless extended by mutual written agreement. If the County does not issue a decision within thirty (30) days or any extension thereof, the County shall be deemed as having made a final decision denying the claim. The County’s decision shall be final and conclusive on the parties, except as provided in “Breaches and Dispute Resolution”.
The Contractor shall not sublet, sell or assign all or any portion of the Contract, or the work provided therein, without the consent of the County. Subletting or assigning more than fifty percent (50%) of the dollar value of the Contract work shall not be permitted. Where subcontractors are used, the contractor shall submit all insurance information for all subcontractors.
If the contractor fails to perform or violates any provisions under this contract, failure or violation may be considered a material breach establishing grounds for contract termination. If the contract is terminated, Cecil County, Maryland may award to the second ranked vendor for this RFQ without re-solicitation.
The County promotes policies which assure and encourage the full participation of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) in the provision of goods and services. Disadvantaged Business Enterprises, as defined in 49 CFR 23, shall have equal opportunity to compete for and perform sub-contracts which the Contractor(s) enters into pursuant to this contract. The Contractor(s) shall use their best efforts to solicit bids from and to utilize DBE sub-contractors(s) or sub-contractors(s) with meaningful minority group and female representation among their employees.
Please submit required information as listed within Section 2 "Submittal Requirements"
By selecting confirm, the bidder agrees to the following:
The bidder declares that the only person, firm, or corporation, or persons, firms, or corporations, that has or have any interest in this proposal or in the Contract or Contracts proposed to be taken is or are the undersigned; that this proposal is made without any connection or collusion with any person, firm, or corporation making a proposal for the same work; that the attached specifications have been carefully examined and are understood; that as careful an examination has been made as is necessary to become informed as to the character and extent of the work required; and that it is proposed and agreed, if the proposal is accepted to contract with Cecil County, Maryland, in the form of Contract heretofore attached, to do the required work in the manner set forth in the specifications.
The bid price on the attached and signed Proposal Forms is to include and cover the furnishing of all equipment, materials, and labor requisite and proper and the providing of all necessary machinery, tools, apparatus, and means for performing the work, and described, and shown in the plans and specifications within the prescribed time. If this proposal shall be accepted by said County and the undersigned shall refuse or neglect within ten days after receiving the Contract for execution to execute the same, and to give stipulated bond, then said County may at their option determine that the bidder has abandoned the Contract; and thereupon the proposal and the acceptance thereof shall be null and void; and the deposit accompanying the proposal shall be forfeited to and become the property of the County.
The Bid Form lists all anticipated work tasks, the unit of measure and estimated quantities. The bidders shall insert as indicated a unit price or lump sum price for each listed work task and multiply that price by the quantity to arrive at an extended total for each work task. All extended prices are then summed to arrive at the Total Bid Amount for the project. The bid will be awarded to the bidder that has the lowest total bid price and is responsive and responsible as defined in the bid/contract documents.
By confirming, the bidder swears (or affirms) under the penalty of perjury that the Bidders, its agents, servants, and/or employees, to the best of their knowledge and belief, have not in any way colluded with anyone for and on behalf of the Bidder, or themselves, to obtain information that would give the Bidder any unfair advantage over others, nor have to gain any favoritism in the award of any contract resulting from this bid. By signing this bid form, I acknowledge that I have read the entire bid package.
The VENDOR declares that the only person, firm or corporation, or persons, firms or corporations, that has or have any interest in this proposal or in the Contract or Contracts proposed to be taken is or are the undersigned; that this proposal is made without any connection or collusion with any person, firm or corporation making a proposal for the same work; that the attached specifications have been carefully examined and are understood; that as careful an examination has been made as is necessary to become informed as to the character and extent of the work required; and, that it is proposed and agreed, if the proposal is accepted to contract with Cecil County, Maryland, in the form of Contract heretofore attached, to do the required work in the manner set forth in the specifications.
The proposal price on the attached and Proposal Forms are to include and cover the furnishing of all equipment, materials, and labor requisite and proper and the providing of all necessary machinery, tools, apparatus, kitchen utensils and means for performing the work, and described and shown in the plans and specifications within the prescribed time. If this proposal shall be accepted by said County and the VENDOR shall refuse or neglect within ten days after receiving the Contract for execution to execute the same, and to give stipulated bond, then said County may at their option determine that the VENDOR has abandoned the Contract; and, thereupon, the proposal and the acceptance thereof shall be null and void; and, the deposit accompanying the proposal shall be forfeited to and become the property of the County.
In the case of firms, the firm’s name must be subscribed to by at least one (1) member. In the case of corporations, the corporate name must be by some authorized officer or agent thereof, who shall also subscribe his name and office.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the undersigned Organization agrees to indemnify and hold Cecil County, Maryland, its elected and appointed officials, employees, and volunteers, and others working on behalf of Cecil County, Maryland, harmless from and against all loss, cost, expense, damage, liability or claims, whether groundless or not, arising out of the bodily injury, sickness or disease (including death resulting at any time therefrom) which may be sustained or claimed by any person or persons, or the damage or destruction of any property, including the loss of use thereof, based on any act or omission, negligent or otherwise, of the Organization, or anyone acting on its behalf in connection with or incident toRFQ-27-001Drug Court Defense Attorney Services - Part-Time, except that the Organization shall not be responsible to Cecil County, Maryland on indemnity for damages caused by or resulting from Cecil County, Maryland's sole negligence; and the Organization shall, at its own cost and expense, defend any such claims and any suit, action, or proceeding which may be recovered in any suit, action, or proceeding, and any and all expense including, but not limited to, costs, attorney's fees and settlement expenses, which may be incurred therein.
Governing Law; Consent to Jurisdiction. This procurement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, and the parties submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Maryland. This agreement may not be modified except in writing executed by the parties.
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9 November, 2023 at 2:00 PM EST
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