DOC begins managing health care / After contract woes, agency tries 'hybrid' scheme
Source: By Jim Ash, Tallahassee Democrat (FL), November 21, 2006
After making a dramatic decision not to award a $707 million contract for prison health care, the Florida Department of Corrections spent its first day Monday managing the job itself. ........ McDonough said the solution they came up with is a ''hybrid'' form of privatization that involves issuing 145 smaller contracts and purchasing orders. The department does not have to hire additional workers to get the job done, McDonough said.