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Arizona DOC Reissues 5,000-bed Prison RFP

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Arizona DOC Reissues 5,000-bed Prison RFP PrintPrint EmailEmail PHOENIX ?1-26-11 The Arizona Department of Corrections has reissued a Request for Proposals for the construction and management of 5,000 minimum-to-medium security prison beds. Proposals for the 20-year, fixed-price contract are due by Thursday, February 24 at 3 P.M. Mountain Time. A pre-proposal conference has been scheduled for Tuesday, February 8 at 10 A.M. MT at the Department of Corrections. On-site inspections have been scheduled between February 9 and February 11 at Yuma in San Luis, Perryville in Goodyear, Lewis in Buckeye and Florence in Florence, Ariz. The DOC cancelled the original RFP last September in the wake of an investigation into security issues raised by the July escape of three inmates from the privately operated Arizona State Prison-Kingman ? a 3,508-bed minimum-to medium-security complex operated by Utah-based firm Management and Training Corp...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 28, 2011 (boomark / email).