Premise: Competitive bidding also became easier with a reputation to back up his grant proposals, and Dudovitz soon was raising enough to develop slick promotional materials and to share funds with other public interest programs to cement collaborative efforts on health care, policy advocacy, homelessness, domestic-violence assistance, self-help and technology development.

Hypothesis: The more Dudovitz's reputation grew, the harder it became for him to engage in competitive bidding.
Relation: contradiction