Richard L. Hanna: “The GAO found that last year over one-third of reverse auctions conducted for agencies had no interactive bidding.”

What you are really describing is a race to the bottom, an opportunity to bid virtually against yourself, taking a risk that may be inappropriate in the moment.

One man's loophole is another man's following the law.

You are breaking our back and it is not worth it.

One could argue that to hire a company that completed a study and ask it to go back on its own study is the definition of a conflict of interest.