Vocabulary: dithered, puns, liberal, subtle, class, granted, modest, inheritance, channel, unease, privilege, philanthropy, psychotherapist, assumptions, inevitably, proxy, motivations, biases, confessed, stipend, sufficiently, abject, baldly, tender, egos, nuances, bewilderment, gracious, sincere, upbringing, engages, stable, enlisted, passion, motto, regardless Extension Activities: 1.
Since a collusive bid generally needs to be sufficiently high or low to make an impact on the bid distribution, any person in charge of supervising capped tenders can be alerted to any bidder that might be involved in a cartel after identifying the same abnormal behavior in a series of tenders through simple calculations and a new type of graph.
The proposed SPLP model is sufficiently general to be independent of the procurement method (competitive tendered or negotiated, for example) and of the treatment of revenue allocation (net or gross based contracts), with the additional advantage of being able to assess value for money for government.
If, for instance, I get to my destination sufficiently late that the sidewalks have been rolled up and I am left to the tender mercies of hotel room service, I can be nonchalant when I dial the kitchen and learn there's a long wait for a minute steak -- no hurry.
