Tag: bid-rigging

May 16 2008

Tender points

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Internet, Legal
16 May 2008

Reading the latest construction weeklies, Construction News has a column (not yet online) from Neil Jarrett of the Collaborative Working Centre explaining how collaborative working will address the problem of bid-rigging, advocating open book cost management (to give greater visibility of real costs and make it difficult for contractors to benefit from collusion) and frameworks (to …

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Apr 20 2008

UK bid-rigging scandal

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Legal
20 April 2008

Before I went on holiday, there was speculation about how many companies would be identified by the UK’s Office of Fair Trading as being involved in construction bid-rigging (see Contract Journal for some background). On Thursday, it was revealed that 112 companies had been accused of rigging thousands of public sector contracts worth billions of pounds, including …