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House committee approves switching county ambulance contracts to RFQ process
Summary
The House Insurance & Commerce Committee voted to allow counties to select ambulance services through a qualifications-based RFQ process rather than by lowest bid, aligning ambulance procurement with other professional services.
Representative Bart Schultz, sponsor: Representative Bart Schultz, said the committee approved a bill to let counties use a qualifications-based request-for-proposals (RFQ) process for ambulance services instead of awarding contracts strictly to the lowest bidder. "All I'm proposing with this bill is we change ambulance services over to the same RFQ process as all these professional entities," Schultz said.
Schultz, who identified himself as a former quorum…
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