Only One Bidder Found for Sheriff’s Office Uniforms and Accessories

The McHenry County Board is due to let a one-year contract, renewal for two more to a Galls, an Aramark Company.

The memo accompanying the resolution says,

“…4 proposals were received. The bids were examined using the following criteria:  price, specifications, and an existing computerized ordering and quartermaster system.  At close of bidding, 1 vendor had successfully met all requirements of the RFP…”

That was Galls.

Strangely, neither the memo nor the resolution tells how much expenditure will be authorized…just that they are within next year’s proposed budget amounts.

Next year’s budget has not yet been approved.


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Only One Bidder Found for Sheriff’s Office Uniforms and Accessories — 8 Comments

  1. Are the RFPs purposely worded to exclude all but ONE vendor?

    the reason that same companies get the County business year after year?

  2. Aramark… Aramark… Aramark… what a coincidence.

    Take a close look at these clowns.

    Interesting they were allowed to have ICE detainees to work for them for a dollar a day in the McHenry County Jail’s kitchens.

    These detainees were not allowed to work in the US but Aramark got them for a dollar a day.

    But you know, politics and money talks.

  3. There should have been something in place when a new person is taking over an office everything is on hold.

    The old regime is trying to get in all the old contracts and spending money that the new Sheriff might not want.

    Zinke plays his cards right up to the end.

  4. The new prisoner transport bus had very tight specs too but strangely it was not spec for propane and was or will be Converted by county thus voiding the factory warranty on the engine !

    Could this have been an oversight?

  5. The entire issue could have been avoided by the Board members who approved these purchases in committee!

    Throw dirt at the them!

    They ARE the problem with County government!

    What was the harm in postponing these purchases for one month?

  6. No Harm it was stated in committee that it took a month for an order to be delivered .

    In two weeks a new sheriff and Board will be sworn in.

  7. New Board, basically the same as the old Board.

    Need to recruit new people to run for the Board!!!

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