Blanket purchase order for the period July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027, to provide expert witness…

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) awarded blanket purchase order C7870D to an expert witness services provider for the fiscal year July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027. The contract carries a total value of $2,500 and authorizes services on an as-needed and called-for basis. Primary contacts for this arrangement are Leslie Romanow and Telsa Robinson, reachable at 239-895-0217. This purchase order supersedes the previous fiscal year's PO #C5C362.

The expert witness services encompass multiple categories of professional consultation, all priced uniformly at $200 per unit with various billing structures. Services include travel time (billed in half-hour increments), record review and testimony preparation (half-hour increments), court testimony and deposition services (one-hour increments, including courtroom waiting time), competency evaluations (flat rate), sanity evaluations (flat rate), contact of collateral information sources (hourly rate), and report writing (hourly rate). Court testimony billing begins upon arrival and concludes upon departure from the courtroom, regardless of case outcome or dismissal during the expert's presence.