Specifications include, but are not limited to:The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office with the cooperation of the Carroll County Bureau of Purchasing is requesting proposals from all interested parties to provide computerized inmate commissary services to the inmates of the Carroll County Detention Center. Currently, inmates order food, personal hygiene items, and other miscellaneous items from a pre-approved, vendor provided order form. Items are then delivered at a later time. Within the past year, we enhanced our telephone ordering system within each inmate housing unit by installing Vizvox inmate kiosks. The objectives of this RFP are: To provide the highest level of service to all inmates of the Carroll County Detention Center; To provide an accurate, economical and efficient means to process inmate orders; To provide a reasonable commission back to the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office. The primary scope of this contract consists of furnishing all materials, labor, training, administration, management and equipment necessary to operate an electronic, computer based inmate commissary operation system as described in this document. 3. PRE-PROPOSAL MEETING A pre-proposal meeting will be held on January 29, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. EST in the Warden’s Office, Carroll County Detention Center, 98 N. Court Street, Westminster, Maryland 21157. The purpose of the pre-proposal meeting is to clarify, explain or provide additional information needed to submit a competitive sealed proposal. All interested Contractors are highly encouraged to attend this meeting. 4. CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR
