{"id":1838,"date":"2017-08-25T17:43:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2017-08-25T17:43:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:43:08","slug":"florida-department-of-health-secretly-issues-request-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/2017\/08\/25\/florida-department-of-health-secretly-issues-request-for-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Department of Health Secretly Issues Request for Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As you may know, the 90-day wait for a Medical marijuana card in Florida is gone. But people are still being forced to wait up to 90 days For a card<\/a>. It looks like that might be by design.<\/p>\n

The FOMM was originally going issue a non-bidding contract to a private company, to come in and take over the medical card program. Due to recent complaints about long waits.<\/p>\n

So they set up and underfunded staff and an unqualified man by the name of Christian Bax to run \u00a0The Florida Office of Medical Marijuana. Remember, there was never even a job posting for his position. \u00a0It was just given to him By the governor.<\/p>\n

It appears as if The Florida Office of Medical Marijuana was set up to fail in the first place, regardless of patient wait times or patient’s suffering.<\/p>\n

Due to the backlash of possibly issuing a request For\u00a0a non-bidding contract (Basically a contract where taxpayers get screwed Due to lack of competition) \u00a0 they issued an “Invitation to Negotiate” and open up the contract bid to other vendors.<\/p>\n

BUT they made the rules so hard that only a handful of companies would qualify for this Medical marijuana card issuance contract.<\/p>\n

Also, during their Q&A addendum, The DOH made it clear that the winning contractor must turn around cards to patients in a minimum of 21 days. Better than 90 days, but not fast enough. Some Hospice patients don\u2019t even have 21 hrs to wait.<\/p>\n

The DOH also did it all very quietly, without a press release and you can\u2019t even search for it on their site search because they didn\u2019t tag it.<\/p>\n

You can only find the request at:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.myflorida.com\/apps\/vbs\/vbs_www.search_r2.criteria_form<\/a><\/p>\n

select agency: \u201cFlorida Department of Health\u201d From the drop-down menu<\/p>\n

Scroll down and click the \u201cAdvertisement Search\u201d button<\/p>\n

and you will find it… unless the site is down… again.<\/p>\n

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How can The Florida Department of Health call it a \u201ccompetitive solicitation\u201d when they don\u2019t do a press release nor tag any of the keywords for the search? You literally can\u2019t even search for this contract.<\/p>\n

Sources tell us a backroom deal has already been made to award this contract to \u201cBrandt Information Systems\u201d, whose partner, John Thomas “JT” Burnette is currently under FBI investigation. We cannot confirm nor deny this but if that is true, then one could suspect that the Florida Department of Health manufactured the understaffing in order to justify the private contract to the same company that\u2019s currently issuing hunting licenses for the state of Florida. If that’s true, then that would mean this whole dog and pony show of people suffering and dying due to long waits is just so a crony capitalistic company can get a contract.<\/p>\n

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