Government Contracts

MARCH 12, 2024

A Georgia concrete company and an executive accused of participating in a price-fixing and bid-rigging scheme have reached plea agreements with the federal government, according to notices filed Tuesday.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 17, 2024

Department of Justice has asked the Fourth Circuit to reconsider a panel's ruling that overturned a former Contech executive's bid-rigging conviction, saying the panel was wrong to focus on a supplier relationship between Contech and a competing contractor.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A Georgia federal judge sentenced a military contractor to four months in prison in a stark departure from the four-year sentence federal prosecutors sought after he and two others were convicted of a nearly $8 million bid-rigging scheme.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A nearly seven-year-old litigation battle over allegations of bid-rigging in the award of a lucrative Denver International Airport concessions contract suddenly ended this week when the parties agreed to dismiss the suit after the first day of trial.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

New York City was bilked out of at least $850,000 over the last 20 years by "false and inflated bids" that resulted in the city paying up to three times the going cost for moving services aimed at helping victims of crime get to safety, according to a set of guilty pleas secured by state prosecutors.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 6, 2024

A second South Korean company and its CEO allegedly defrauded the Pentagon in a scheme to rig bids and fix prices for subcontract work on U.S. military installations in South Korea, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Department of Justice announced Idaho federal court criminal fraud and antitrust charges Friday against a pair of fuel truck operators accused of rigging bids for U.S. Forest Service firefighting service contracts, in an indictment full of wiretap-gleaned receipts of plans against competitors to "drown these b **s out."

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Construction at Savannah, Georgia's federal courthouse means that three men accused of conspiring to rig bids for millions of dollars' worth of ready-mix concrete contracts will have to be tried in a college town a couple of counties over, according to the DOJ.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday found that a concrete executive has to wait until after he's tried to contest his indictment by a remotely convened grand jury during the pandemic on charges of allegedly fixing prices and rigging bids for ready-mix concrete in Georgia.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A Georgia federal judge has sentenced two military contractors for using false bids to secure Pentagon contracts worth almost $8 million, a month after a co-conspirator was hit with a four-month sentence, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A county housing director in North Carolina was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison after she pled guilty to a conspiracy charge stemming from a scheme to funnel public housing contracts to her friends and family, prosecutors said.

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Government Contracts

AUGUST 9, 2024

Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced the indictment of an Oklahoma highway runoff contracting business and two of its employees for their involvement in a price-fixing, bid-rigging and market allocation conspiracy that impacted over $100 million in publicly funded construction contracts in the state.

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Government Contracts

AUGUST 7, 2024

A former executive of an aluminum pipe company defending the Fourth Circuit's reversal of his bid-rigging conviction has told the U.S.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Fourth Circuit on Friday overturned a bid-rigging conviction for a former executive of aluminum pipe maker Contech because the indictment alleged the wrong crime, but left his fraud convictions intact.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Department of Justice and the former Contech executive who was convicted of bid-rigging both agree that the Fourth Circuit should rethink the decision that wiped out that conviction, but for different reasons — one wants the conviction reinstated, while the other says the panel didn't go far enough.

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Federal News Network

MAY 16, 2024

The majority of federal government procurement is not a set and attacked by bid rigging, price fixing and fraud schemes. And what the OECD tried to do is assess how much money is lost from bid rigging, price fixing and other collusive schemes at the outset from government spending. They conspired to rig bids.

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SmallGovCon

AUGUST 23, 2024

South Carolina Residents Ordered to Pay $50,000 Fine and More Than $400,000 in Restitution Following Their Conviction in “Rent-A-Vet” Construction Fraud Scheme Targeting the United States Department of Veterans Affairs GSA releases FY 2025 CONUS per diem rates for federal travelers Navy’s journey to new procurement system remains in peril Prime Contractors (..)

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A Colorado judge has allowed a Denver brewing company to proceed to trial next week with the company's conspiracy claims against an airport restaurant operator, but she tossed claims of bid-rigging and tortious interference.

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Government Software and Databases Agencies are losing out on software savings, GAO finds Government Contractors Agree to Pay $3.9 Army Facility The post SmallGovCon Week in Review: Jan. 2, 2024 first appeared on SmallGovCon - Government Contracts Law Blog.

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Public Contracting Institute

APRIL 1, 2024

It does so by offering an immutable, transparent record of transactions, which helps to eliminate common issues such as bid rigging, kickbacks, and other forms of corruption.

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GovCon & Trade

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Teaming agreements can pose risks as they generally require contractors to commit to not submit bids independently or with another party. To protect against bid rigging or anticompetitive enforcement actions, a contractor should clearly demonstrate the complementary skills bidders will combine for the benefit of the customer.

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European Law: Public Procurement

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It should be taken into consideration that there is a risk for a strategic use of bid protest mechanisms seems at least twofold. Public Procurement and the EU Competition Rules (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2011) 358-9].

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SmallGovCon

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Avionics Equipment to Russia and Russian End Users Executives Charged with Bid Rigging, Territorial Allocation and Defrauding the U.S.

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