Competition Matters

Everyone loves a good Letterman-style “Top 10” list.  And while a list focused on what documents you should be retaining in your procurement files after the contract is awarded certainly won’t score high enough on the comedic scale to find its way onto late-night television, it is nevertheless an important tool in achieving one of every public entity’s most important goals – making tax dollars go as far as possible.

Price-fixing occurs when competing businesses conspire to raise, lower, or maintain the prices of goods or services at certain price points.

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

In April of 2019, Marshall Holland, the owner of a Texas-based company that buys and sells used computers and computer parts, pleaded guilty in federal court for participating in a scheme to fix bids in online auctions set up and run by the Government Services Administration (“GSA”), the federal agency that manages federal properties and provides support services to federal government agencies.