The competitive bidding process is designed to facilitate transparency and accountability in procurement, provide bidders with a fair and equal chance to compete for and potentially be awarded a bid, and allow purchasers to receive the best value and quality for the goods and services that they seek. As such, public purchasers rely on the competitive bidding process to best provide for the communities that they serve and safeguard the taxpayers’ money from bad actors or unscrupulous deals.
Crises can bring out the best in people. In times of war, natural disasters, or pandemics like COVID-19, heroic individuals always seem to rise to the occasion.
Price-fixing occurs when two or more competing businesses conspire with each other to set pricing at certain price points in order to increase revenue.
Judy Green was a public schoolteacher of more than 30 years, who used her knowledge of the E-Rate program, a funding program for schools, to market an illegal bid-rigging scheme to low-income, undeserved community schools.
Ever wonder if the grass is greener elsewhere? Employees of Dunkin’ Brands, Arby’s, Five Guy Burgers and Fries, and Little Caesars are now able to find out.
State and federal antitrust enforcers investigate various kinds of anticompetitive conduct that impede free and fair competition, and disadvantage consumers.
The Ohio Attorney General’s Partnership for Competitive Purchasing is undergoing big changes. The modifications are designed to help us better help you – Ohio’s public purchasers – with bid-rigging detection and prevention.
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.