Sounds like we all need a lesson in Corruption 101. Pay to Play as we commonly know it occurs where someone gives money to a campaign in return for a non-bid contract. It can also mean favors were given in which there were monetary benefits. That did not occur here because this was a for-bid contract which was vetted before acceptance. The writer should have taken a stringent look at the closed bids once they were open and the vetting process which qualified the bid in his search for corruption.