A Municipality Wishes to Reconstruct Eight Kilometres of Its Roads

question 43

Multiple Choice

A municipality wishes to reconstruct eight kilometres of its roads. The four road contractors in the area secretly agree that only one contractor would bid (and would bid high) on the project, and later the successful bidder would divide up the work amongst them by subcontract, two kilometres each. This bid would constitute

• A) double ticketing.
• B) conspiracy.
• C) a restrictive trade practice.
• D) bid-rigging.
• E) collusion.

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