Anti-"Bid Shopping" Bill Attempts to End Poor Management Practices
A bill would prohibit bid shopping on contracts and improve management process ...
A new bill would prohibit bid shopping on construction contracts with the federal government and improve the government's construction management process. Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) introduced H.R. 1859, the Construction Quality Assurance Act of 2001, on May 16.
The bill would penalize contractors working on a federal contract for bid shopping. Bid shopping is defined in the bill as "the practice of a contractor asking, requiring, or otherwise pressuring a subcontractor to lower bids for subcontracts, or accepting lower bids from subcontractors, after submitting a bid without passing the savings from the lower bids back to the federal government."