Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

bid shopping

A general contractor's effort -after being awarded a contract - to reduce its own costs by finding a subcontractor that will submit a lower bid than that used in calculating the total contract price. 0 If a lower bid is secured, the general contractor will receive a windfall profit because the savings are usu. not passed on to the property owner. The subcontractor whose bid is used in the initial proposal can seek to avoid bid shopping by insisting that it be irrevocably named in the contract as the project's subcontractor.