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Jacksonville, Florida, Mayor Donna Deegan is facing questions after she awarded a no-bid contract worth $300,000 to a firm whose president not only donated to her campaign, but hosted an event for her at his home this year.report, revealing that the city’s Professional Services Evaluation Committee recommended Deegan approve a year-long contract with Langton Consulting without seeking proposals from any other firms, despite the city typically requiring “competitive bidding.
Even more head-turning is the fact that Langton Consulting is not actually registered to lobby at the city, state, or federal levels, despite the service being a major portion of the contract. As the local outlet reported, “Langton will use Becker & Poliakoff, a firm based in Washington that has Florida offices in 11 cities, to handle the lobbying part of the contract.”
Even if the city couldn’t hold a proper bidding competition in time to meet upcoming grant deadlines, they could’ve awarded the contract on a month-by-month basis while opening up the floor to other firms, Howland added. Langton, a longtime supporter of the Democrat party along with his wife, served in the state House of Representatives from 1985 to 1992 and founded his consulting firm in 1981.Langton Consulting has worked in the past on city projects, most notably when it helped secure about $11 million in federal grants and state appropriations between 2013 and 2017 to keep the St. Johns River Ferry service running until the Jacksonville Transportation Authority agreed to take over its operation.
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