Competition Matters

Tailor the topics and timing of email communications you receive from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.

We encourage you to suggest a topic or ask a question of the legal staff of the Ohio Attorney General’s Antitrust Section. 

We have attorneys and investigators available to present your group with a lively presentation that educates participants on the basics of antitrust law.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s Partnership for Competitive Purchasing takes a proactive approach to bid-rigging detection. The partnership offers reviews to analyze bid files for anti-competitive activities and answer your questions or concerns.

Ensure fair and open competition while discouraging collusion by using sealed bids in your purchasing process. Envelopes that house bid documents are, in many cases, just as important as the bid documents themselves in the detection of collusion among competitors.

Collusive bidding is a secret agreement among suppliers to control prices when submitting bids in an attempt to win contracts by illegal means or methods

A note of caution to Ohio’s public purchasers: collusive vendors can subvert a process originally intended to save taxpayer funds.