The cheapest option will generally win yes, in every other aspect of society we are pushing competition for people to produce better products at cheaper costs. God forbid we should introduce this into healthcare as well and actually make the system cost effective and efficent![]()
The problem of course is that if you always award a tender to the lowest bidder you do generally receive a quality of product or service thats associated with being the lowest bidder. It's not rocket science that the absolute cheapest way of doing something isn't neccesarily the best.