§14–204.

    The Board shall adopt regulations to establish procedures for:

        (1)    compiling and maintaining a comprehensive bidder’s list of small businesses;

        (2)    locating potential sources for various construction related services, supplies, and services and affirmatively seeking to locate potential minority business enterprise sources for those construction related services, supplies, and services;

        (3)    helping small businesses to comply with the procedures for bidding on procurement contracts;

        (4)    examining requests for construction related services, supplies, and services to determine when an invitation for bids may be designated for the Small Business Preference Program;

        (5)    bidding for a procurement contract designated for a small business preference;

        (6)    simplifying procurement specifications and terms, to increase the opportunities for small business participation;

        (7)    investigating the responsibility of bidders on small business preferences; and

        (8)    explaining to a small business the reason for which its bid for a small business preference was rejected.