Business Services Industry
Hialeah, Fla., Medical Supply Firm to Transport, Store New Voting Equipment.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2001
By Scott Wyman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 14--Broward County's new voting equipment will make a sidetrip to Hialeah before arriving in Fort Lauderdale because of a $878,000 subcontract steered to a medical supply firm to meet affirmative action goals.
American Medical Depot has no experience with election machinery, but was hired to transport and store the voting booths and touch-screen computers after county officials demanded the manufacturer give 10 percent of its $17.2 million contract to minority businesses. The voting machines will be trucked from Nebraska to American Medical's warehouse in Hialeah and reshipped to Fort Lauderdale.
The lion's share of the American Medical subcontract also won't...
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