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When deals are bad enough, a always suspect bribery. Unless it is public procurements, then I blame too strict lowest bidder rules.
by rightbyte 3y ago
When deals are bad enough, a always suspect bribery.
Unless it is public procurements, then I blame too strict lowest bidder rules.
- pessimizer 3y agoNo, in public procurement it's still bribery. You just carefully tailor the tender to the company that the fix is already in for. When I worked in state government, every vendor of products was simply a middleman who marked a bunch of stuff up that you could easily buy from standard wholesale sources. Their catalogs would be three-hole binders of photocopies from other people's catalogs and printouts from ecommerce webpages with the prices whited out, and a pricelist typed up in word at the back. Every vendor of services was connected to an insider who tipped them off that purchases were about to be made. The lowest bidder was selected from the people who could jump through the hoops required to submit bids, and who also fit the carefully written RFP.
- Tangurena2 3y agoIn the case of Quiznos, it was kickbacks from the service company. Even when your soda machine was still under warranty, the franchise agreement required the store owner to use only one "authorized" company to repair the machines and pay them $75 per visit. https://www.westword.com/news/youre-toast-5092405?showFullText=true https://www.westword.com/news/youre-toast-5092405?showFullTe... Westword is Denver's alternative weekly newspaper. Quiznos started in Denver.