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Pat Lafferty

Nov 9, 2026

12:10
Is that good or bad for your clients? Is that good or bad for you? How much are you monitoring that?
12:14
Yeah.
12:15
I mean, the consolidation trend has been going for a while now, and there can be efficiencies that are drawn out from that.
12:27
So there's not I don't think a right or wrong model.
12:30
But the thing that we really push for and advise our clients on is making sure that there is true transparency in how they're operating.
12:40
where it can get a little tricky is if the whole co's or frankly large independents, if they are saying that they are bidding out a project, but they're only bidding it out to entities within their whole co, and they're not disclosing that, then, you know, that's not a good thing because, you know, obviously they have a vested interest in having, you know, retaining as much money as they can.
13:08
And I'm not saying that they would do that necessarily, but that is the temptation to do that.
17:05
Do you think this is a real debate or kind of just CEOs scoring points, if you will?

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