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Also sounds like it incentivises collusion; company A and B take turns on contracts - one bids a ridiculously high sum that will skew the average, and the other turns in a more reasonable but inflated bid. The inflated bid is closer to the skewed average, and whomever's turn it is profits quite a bit.