The contract to provide health services to the more than 20,000 men and women in state prisons is back up for grabs with the current quarter billion-dollar deal is set to expire in early 2017.
The current provider, Centurion of Tennessee, signed a $270 million in 2013 that was set to expire this year. That contract has been extended through February 2017, but the state has officially opened a bidding process to allow any company to vie for the lucrative deal, said Tennessee Department of Correction spokeswoman Neysa Taylor.
Taylor couldn’t say whether Centurion would try to earn the contract again. Centurion did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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