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Article: DNA contract protest futile ; North Carolina vendor wins $4 million-a-year lab business.
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- Dayton Daily News
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- August 22, 2009
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MORAINE -- The Ohio Department of Administrative Services won't
overturn its decision to award a $4 million-per-year state contract
to a North Carolina vendor after a local provider of DNA identity
testing services protested that decision.
The decision costs the Moraine operations of Princeton, N.J.-
based Orchid Cellmark Inc. about 30 percent of its business, and
about 7 percent of Orchid's overall business, according to Teresa
Northrop, Orchid's contract administrator in Moraine.
Northrop declined further comment on Friday, Aug. 21, as did
William J. Thomas, Orchid's vice president and general counsel.
Laboratory Corp. of America, based in Burlington, N.C., bid $3.86
million per year ...