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MartyPeter, you may want to consult an attorny, but what you are suggesting, I believe is illegal. The term is either bid rigging or collusion.
Bid suppression occurs where some of the conspirators agree not to submit a bid so that another conspirator can successfully win the contract.
Bid rotation occurs where the bidders take turns being the designated successful bidder, for example, each conspirator is designated to be the successful bidder on certain contracts, with conspirators designated to win other contracts. This is a form of market allocation, where the conspirators allocate or apportion markets, products, customers or geographic territories among themselves, so that each will get a "fair share" of the total business, without having to truly compete with the others for that business.
Maybe a couple of the lawyer types can chime in and correct me if I am wrong.
Would you want to be selling into this type of actions?