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Costly contract requirement scrapped for sole bidder of Alabama's $224 million inmate health care contract
By al.com- Casey Toner
Published: 09/08/2014

A competitor for Alabama's $224 million inmate health care contract claimed in a letter critical of the process that a costly stipulation helped push the firm out of the bidding race.

The Alabama Department of Corrections required that the winning vendor had to buy a $5 million performance bond in order to get the contract.

But when the deal was signed two years ago, the Alabama Department of Corrections scrapped the requirement altogether. Private prison health care firm Corizon was then awarded the 34-month contract after it submitted the only bid for the work.

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