Company claims Jindal administration’s selection of another firm based on bias

An unsuccessful bidder claims bias by the Jindal administration in the selection of a new firm to run the state’s self-insurance program.

York Risk Services Group is challenging the award of the $80 million, three-year contract to Memphis, Tennessee-based Sedgwick Claims Management Services.

York is the current contractor, doing business through one of its companies, Mandeville-based FARA.

Its proposal was $6.5 million less than Sedgwick’s.

In an appeal to Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols, York lawyers argue that Sedgwick should have been disqualified for failure to comply with mandatory provision of the request for proposal.

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