{"id":2925,"date":"2010-07-16T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2010\/07\/16\/is-bid-rigging-alive-well\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:55:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:55:14","slug":"is-bid-rigging-alive-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-bid-rigging-alive-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bid Rigging Alive &amp; Well?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Paul Salisbury \u2013 an SPSM and former Dedicated Purchasing Student of the Month \u2013 passed along to me an article about bid rigging that has affected government procurement in the Isle of Man. Honestly, bid rigging is something that I haven\u2019t thought about for a little while, which led me to the question: is there any good information out there about bid rigging?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>I found a few sites to have interesting content on the matter including Wikipedia, which has a concise post covering the types of bid rigging, and the District of Columbia\u2019s Office of the Attorney General, which shares several signs that bid rigging may be occurring.<\/p>\n<p>However, probably the most thorough information I found was on the US Department of Justice\u2019s site, which featured an article entitled \u201cPrice Fixing, Bid Rigging, and Market Allocation Schemes:What They Are and What to Look For.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about it, I really think that this material is something that every purchasing professional should read, especially those new to the discipline. We will probably reference this material in the next regular revision of our online class \u201cMastering Purchasing Fundamentals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Paul Salisbury \u2013 an SPSM and former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is Bid Rigging Alive &amp; Well? - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-bid-rigging-alive-well\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is Bid Rigging Alive &amp; Well? 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