Price fixing is rampant in IT since Vendor Management Systems were introduced. Indeed, price fixing is the primary reason the systems were adopted. Recently I had an interesting discussion with a pimp about a contract opening. They had posted the contract opening on Dice and tagged the entry as “market rate”, but when the called me, they were offering a billing rate well below half of market rate. Several other pimps had called about this … Vendor Management Systems = Price Fixing and Wire FraudRead more