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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SmallGovCon

AUGUST 23, 2024

This week in federal government contracting, the recent headlines highlight a wide array of developments within federal operations, emphasizing both accountability and innovation. Here, in Lawrence, Kansas, the kids have started school and the college students are busy moving in and preparing to start classes.

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week in federal government contracting news had some important updates, including a new GSA schedule catalog platform, a report on savings in software purchases, and a revamped SBA training program from small businesses. 2, 2024 first appeared on SmallGovCon - Government Contracts Law Blog.

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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

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

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

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

MARCH 27, 2025

The owner of a company that contracted with the U.S. Forest Service to supply fuel truck services to wildland firefighters pled guilty to conspiring with another executive to rig bids and allocate territories between 2015 and 2023.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 18, 2025

The president of an asphalt paving company who pled guilty to participating in a scheme with other asphalt companies to rig bids for projects in Michigan for roughly eight years avoided prison time and was orderedTuesday to pay a $100,000 fine.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 9, 2025

A metro Detroit asphalt executive pled guilty Wednesday for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids for paving jobs in Michigan, the latest plea in the government's sprawling investigation into multiple companies and their leaders for a scheme that resulted in millions of dollars' worth of rigged contracts.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 2, 2025

Lawyers representing an education resources supplier that sued its business partner over allegations of price-fixing and bid-rigging within the New York City school system have been sanctioned for repeatedly attempting to add claims to unauthorized amended complaints in what a federal judge said was bad faith.

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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

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

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

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

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Department of Justice's Antitrust Division used a speech celebrating the anniversary of a major initiative combating bid-rigging and other efforts by government contractors to bilk taxpayer-funded projects to also note that criminal antitrust enforcement more broadly has changed considerably in recent years.

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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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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

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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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. For more insights into the impact of technology on procurement, visit our blog on government contracting for related discussions and expert analyses.

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GovCon & Trade

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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. Also, contractors should combine resources and activities to drive efficiencies.

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SmallGovCon

DECEMBER 22, 2023

And now in federal government contracting news this week, a big update about labor in federal construction projects. Avionics Equipment to Russia and Russian End Users Executives Charged with Bid Rigging, Territorial Allocation and Defrauding the U.S. We truly appreciate you!

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