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Aramark lone bidder for Tennessee prison food contract |
By tennessean.com- Dave Boucher |
Published: 08/16/2016 |
Once the Tennessee Department of Correction determined Aramark was the only qualified bidder for the state's prison food contract, the department set up the massive Philadelphia-based food company to receive a contract expected to top $118 million. Although final contract negotiations won't take place until October, the potential contract would make the cost of prison food millions of dollars less expensive than when the troubled inmate-staffed Tennessee Rehabilitative Initiative in Correction, or TRICOR, ran the program. Tennessee picks Aramark, another prison food provider with troubled past Bid documents obtained by The Tennessean show two companies tried to bid for the new prison food contract, but the state disqualified the second company, Trinity Services Group, Inc. A July letter to the company says Trinity did not comply with several components of the lengthy request for proposal. Read More. |
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