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Representative presses Alabama corrections staff over emergency contract switch, seeks vendor vetting documents
Summary
Representative England demanded details about an emergency procurement that he said replaced YesCare with Navcare, questioned vendor vetting and undisclosed payments to a firm called Leo Technologies, and said he would hold Department of Corrections contracts until he receives answers.
Representative John England pressed Department of Corrections officials during the Contract Review Committee’s May session for a detailed accounting of how an emergency contract award was made and who vetted the replacement vendor.
England said a long-running contract with YesCare was replaced recently by a company he identified in the meeting as Navcare and that the swap occurred without a public bid. He told the committee the new arrangement was for “half $1,000,000,000,” a figure the chair confirmed in the session; England said he would hold all Department of Corrections…
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