You could also team up with other businesses to form a consortium to bid directly for work.

The international consortium formed in 1986 to build the plane was to have produced 764 of them.

I formed a consortium of law firms around the country, and we've been taking on the biggest insurance companies.

One shareholder has formed a consortium with a view to making an offer for the whole company.

Local college and university representatives have voted to form a nonprofit consortium to run it.

The department is supporting the five-hospital effort to form a consortium.

Seven of the colleges formed a consortium to provide the financial sponsorship for the project.

They formed a consortium to explore telecommunications and computer delivery systems for the news.

In Orange County, for example, local leaders recently formed a consortium to help keep companies from moving away.

His affection for the Rex has led him to form a consortium that is hoping to buy the theater.