Maryland Open Meetings Act: "discussions about sole-source contracts and modifications of a contract that has already been awarded seldom fall within the exception."

The Montgomery County Board of Education has claimed that the Maryland Open Meetings Act allowed them to discuss the purchase of 70 diesel school buses from a single vendor in a Closed Session.  

Here's what the actual Maryland Open Meetings Act Manual has to say about that discussion:

The Montgomery County Board of Education had not put out a RFP for this procurement, was not evaluating competitive offers, and has purchased from the local dealer for the last few years and from the distributor for decades.