Controls on the bidding process revisited

Following up on the Purchase Law Clinic in the February, 1984, issue of HPM, consider this precondition to quoting inserted by a supplier in his proposal to a group purchasing organization. The supplier required that, if it was the low bidder and was awarded the contract, each member hospital agreed to purchase only from that specific supplier. The member hospitals agreed not to buy from any other supplier who might try to undercut the successful low bidder.