Auctions need competitive collectors, and no one wanted to bid against the royal family in Qatar.

拍卖需要有竞争性的收藏家，但没有人愿意和卡塔尔王室竞买。

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Some fret about the growing tendency for private-equity groups to club together to bid for large companies—is that anti-competitive behaviour or simply a wise effort to spread risk?

私募股本集团联合竞标大型企业，有些人对此趋势感到担忧——这是否是反竞争行为？ 或者仅仅是分散风险的聪明手段？

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Virgin Atlantic warned that the deal was anti-competitive, as it confirmed that it too had lodged a bid for bmi.

维珍航空警告说这一交易对竞争不利，它同时证实了自己也参与了对bmi的竞价。

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And over the past six months, agencies have been making cuts by looking for better deals, by ending contracts and doing work in house, and by opening up no-bid contracts to competitive bidding.

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Put them through a competitive bid process (sealed bid or auction), with pre-set milestones.

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The amount spent on no-bid, non-competitive contracts jumped by 129 percent.

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