(a) Each invitation for bids or requests for proposals for a contract that will involve the selection of a consultant who is to assist WSSC in the formation, award, or execution of any WSSC contract shall require that a bidder or offeror provide WSSC with an affidavit that discloses any actual or potential conflict of interest of which the bidder or offeror knows, or reasonably can be expected to know.

(b) Requirements for disclosure of conflicts of interests under this section shall be consistent with those applicable to state agency consultants under the State Finance and Procurement Article, § 13-212, Annotated Code of Maryland.

(c) Except as may be provided in WSSC procurement regulations, each person, upon submitting a bid or proposal or other application for a contract with WSSC, shall submit an affidavit of nonconviction (and related affirmation) in accordance with the State Finance and Procurement Article, § 16-311, Annotated Code of Maryland. The affidavit additionally shall cover any convictions of making a payment of a gratuity to, or supplementing the salary of, a public official or similar offenses relating to public graft. The affidavit shall cover any conviction by any officer, director, partner, or employee of the person or, if the person is a business, the business itself. To the extent known, the affidavit shall also cover convictions of any officer, director, partner, employee of, and including a business, related by common ownership or management control, including subsidiaries, affiliates, or parent corporations.

(d) Conviction, including an accepted plea of nolo contendere, of any of the offenses set forth in subsection (c) of this section may be grounds for debarment or a determination by WSSC that a bidder or offeror is not responsible to perform the contract.

(e) This section is not intended to preclude WSSC from imposing similar conflict of interest requirements as conditions in its other contracts. (Res. 2003-1669 § 1(4-5))