On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, John Drescher wrote:

> Perhaps the OP has an exclusive contract to buy stuff from one vendor.

Perhaps - we do, but our contracts have a get-out clause that forces the
vendor to stay price competitive.

> Around 10 years ago I was working for a cancer research team (same one
> I am now) that was in a hospital system that was going bankrupt. At
> that time we were using 8mm exabyte tapes. From the approved vendor
> these were $12.75 each while I could easily get them for $3.00 each
> online. This it was so frustrating having to pay 4 times the price but
> we had to comply.

Most times I'm aware of, investigation of such anomalies has found someone
making a kickback. That's even more frustrating...


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