Timeline for Why would a company want me to book a flight via a travel agent if it is more expensive?
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| May 21, 2016 at 15:15 | comment | added | Paulb | Good point. Example: In the US, Federal employees must use a pre-selected company. Wagonlit Travel Co usually. | |
| May 20, 2016 at 6:11 | comment | added | ales | @Relaxed At my university, all airplane tickets get submitted to 3 preselected travel agencies (who won the "tender" for a few years). Then, the cheapest bid is selected. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 6:21 | comment | added | Relaxed | @Kaz Yes, that's the way it works but not for each and every trip obviously, it's a tender to become the university's travel agent for a few years. | |
| May 18, 2016 at 20:10 | comment | added | Kaz | "Call for tender" brings to mind submitting a request to several different travel agents and then collecting their bids. | |
| May 18, 2016 at 8:52 | comment | added | Mołot | @reirab where I live, it's not about how much single item costs. Rather, all items of such type over a period of time (year or term of office) are treated as one to test if it was legal to order them without call for tenders. So it's not about $50. It's about way much higher amount of money. | |
| May 18, 2016 at 5:37 | comment | added | Relaxed | @reirab Obviously... | |
| May 18, 2016 at 5:09 | comment | added | neo | @reirab Our (public administration but not a university) threshold is 500 € from which on we need to collect comparative offers. But for most most run-of-the-mill travel we have two internal and an external travel agency (that had been tendered) which need to be used. | |
| May 18, 2016 at 4:28 | comment | added | reirab | It's unlikely that a single trip where a $50 difference was a significant thing would be above the threshold where a call for bids is required. However, it's possible that the university periodically bids a contract for a travel agent that is used for university travel for some duration. | |
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