Competition Matters

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.

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

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s Partnership for Competitive Purchasing takes a proactive approach to bid-rigging detection. 

You can tailor the topics and timing of email communications from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office by visiting Email Updates.

We have attorneys and investigators available to present to your group with a lively presentation that educates participants on the basics of antitrust law, giving real-life examples of vendor misconduct impacting Ohio public purchasers. 

The articles featured in “Competition Matters” often advise public purchasing agents on suspicious bidding behaviors that can harm the competitive process. 

Tax lien auctions are commonly used by counties, municipalities, and other local government entities to deal with tax-delinquent properties.