You can. OK this is only the way I do it, there are many others: See, mostly you wont want to buy anything at top quality (300 ish), your country should buy at 100 and your upgraded corps probably about 160, less than 200 anyway. And to add into this equation that most corps will need to produce at high quality to make a profit, you get the paradox of either paying far too much for your home grown product or your corps get cheaper supply but cant make much profit. I doubt you will get all you need or sell all you make in a common market so the profit to be made through selling on the world market has been sacrificed. (Am I making sense ?). Basically not many people, especially new people, make much profit by using contracts of any sort.
There are ways of getting it to work by selective supply to your corps, eg. low quality expensive things your corp uses a lot of and high quality cheap things, so the average supply quality is abou