TWO COMPANIES- Follett Higher Education Group and Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC have submitted bids for the five-year contract to manage the four CCRI bookstores under a new privatization plan. / COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND
PROVIDENCE – The two largest private operators of college and university bookstores in the country have submitted bids for the five-year contract to manage the bookstores at the four Community College of Rhode Island in Warwick, Lincoln, Newport and Providence, according to the Rhode Island Division of Purchases, the state's procurement office. Westchester, Ill.-based Follett…