Bid Shopping. Bid shopping is an unethical practice in which a contractor discloses the bid price of one subcontractor to another in an attempt to obtain a lower bid price. Included in bid shopping is âbid peddling,â in which subcontractors themselves offer to undercut the known bid of another subcontractor.
The real estate entitlement process is frequently a political one, which involves uncertainty and often extensive negotiation and concessions in order to secure the necessary approvals and permits.
Entitlement Management Entitlement management is technology that grants, resolves, enforces, revokes and administers fine-grained access entitlements (also referred to as âauthorizations,â âprivileges,â âaccess rights,â âpermissionsâ and/or ârulesâ). Its purpose is to execute IT access policies to structured/unstructured data, devices and services. Entitlement management can be delivered by different technologies, and is often different across platforms, applications, network components and devices.