No, 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 govern

No, 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.