BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Three firms are vying to advise the Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration on efforts to privatize a Louisiana state worker health insurance program.

Michael DiResto, a spokesman for the governor's Division of Administration, said the firms are Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Keegan.

The division is seeking a financial adviser to determine the market value of the Office of Group Benefits' book of business, before the administration looks for a private company to manage one of the agency's insurance plans.

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