And so what ends up happening is the taxpayer loses the benefit of a better product at a better price because everything is bundled into this huge contract with a giant general contractor who then divvies up the business.
Price-sensitive health services might also be interested in bundled deals for the broad selection of cancer and cardiovascular pills that Roche now controls.
Bundled fees which utterly lack transparency only ensure that pension fiduciaries will be less informed as to the price they pay for any given service.
In this case, Viacom set the price for a group of its most-popular channels above that of a package that bundled the bigger channels with little-watched outlets, say multiple people familiar with the situation.
On that note, we've just been hit with a memo that's supposedly floating around SCK -- the Radio Shack subsidiary responsible for Sam's Club kiosks -- that calls the X2 "a new Droid X version" with a 2GB bundled microSD card replacing the original model's 16GB... and it'll sell for the same price.