Creek firm wins no-bid jail contract
Source: BY DAN CHRISTENSEN, Miami Herald (FL), Wed, Feb. 08, 2006
A politically connected Coconut Creek company that provides inmate healthcare services at the Broward County Jail has won a multimillion-dollar, three-year no-bid contract to provide medical services to county prisoners in Palm Beach County. Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw hired Armor Correctional Health Services last month after quietly dumping St. Louis-based Correctional Medical Services. Florida sheriffs are not required by law to use a competitive process to award contracts, but they often do when large contracts are involved.