The Case for Unfair Competition
Captive operations like in-plants support their parent organizations’ missions, bringing better flexibility and control. For this reason, insists one university administrator, the competition should be unfair.
Competing with the Market
The institutional models with which I'm familiar require that, above a certain dollar level, SDAEs must formally compete with the market. At the University of Oklahoma, this dollar level is $35,000. If a department has a requirement at that level, which could be met by an SDAE, then the SDAE must formally compete against the market for that business. My argument here is that the SDAE shouldn't have to do that. Here's why.
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