Opposition - USA - Big bus deal takes a U-turn
A second-ranked firm not only gets another shot at a coveted contract to supply 300 new buses to Miami-Dade Transit, it persuades a retired judge to recommend bouncing the top-ranked firm that the county favored.
Miami,FL,USA -Miami Herald, by LARRY LEBOWITZ -24 Sept 2005: -- Miami-Dade County officials unfairly disqualified Blue Bird Coachworks, a prominent Georgia bus manufacturer, from competing for a highly coveted multimillion dollar contract to supply 300 new 30-foot Metrobuses, a hearing examiner has ruled... On top of that, retired Circuit Judge Jack M. Turner recommended that county officials disqualify the apparent winner of the contract, Optima Bus Co. of Wichita, Kan. -- citing many of the very same financial reporting shortcomings that had snarled Blue Bird's bid.
In his ruling, Turner noted that Blue Bird's bid would have come in $12 million lower than Optima's...
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