Investigation into price fixing expands to 20 Swiss construction firms
The Competition Commission (Comco) is extending its investigation into possible bid-rigging agreements in the canton of Jura. Based on previous investigations, this will now be extended to a total of 20 companies, Comco announced on Tuesday.
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Initial investigations into six companies had already been launched last November. It was suspected that these companies had been coordinating their bids and prices for public and private sector procurements for several years.
Potentially more than 150 tenders in civil engineering and building construction from 2016 to 2025 are affected, Comco wrote. Such an investigation would normally take three years.
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