Re:Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in ...
by ubernostrum on Saturday October 21, 2017 @11:10PM
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Even better: the more rules and processes you put in place to try to avoid/punish this, the harder it is to get the contract in the first place. Eventually, most companies decide it's not worth jumping through all the hoops you've put in place to avoid corruption, and you end up with a handful of entities which get every contract and face no meaningful competition to try to keep the bids down.
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Re:Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in ...
by pxeboot on Sunday October 22, 2017 @12:12AM
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This is already a problem. A company I worked for submitted a bid for an IT infrastructure project several years ago. We were rejected for not having completed a similar project for a government agency before.
Our bid was 1/3rd of the "winning" bid.