KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 23 — The Malaysia Competitors Fee (MyCC), an company beneath the Ministry of Home Commerce and Value of Dwelling (KPDN), has issued a proposed determination in opposition to six enterprises for his or her alleged involvement in a bid rigging cartel of 16 quotations and one tender issued by the Kluang Jail Division.
MyCC chairman Tan Sri Idrus Harun, in a press release, stated these enterprises are provisionally discovered to have infringed part 4(2)(d) of the Competitors Act 2010 (Act 712).
“The affected quotations and tenders concerned procurement worth starting from RM30,000 to RM3 million, bringing as much as a complete worth of RM7.3 million.
“By means of MyCC’s investigations, it was discovered that the enterprises had engaged in a bid rigging cartel by means of the trade of knowledge and facilitation of tender and bid submission by the identical get together,” he stated.
Idrus added that such agreements had been geared toward considerably stopping, proscribing or distorting competitors in relation to public procurement on the Kluang Jail Division.
“You will need to spotlight that at this stage, the Proposed Determination is a provisional discovering and it shouldn’t be taken that these enterprises have conclusively infringed the Act 712.
“The enterprises named within the Proposed Determination had been notified of the proposed penalties and instructions in the present day.
“They’re given the chance to submit their written representations inside 30 days upon receiving the Proposed Determination in addition to current their oral representations earlier than the Fee on a date to be decided later,” he added.
MyCC will concern its last determination solely after contemplating all representations from the enterprises alongside the proof obtained through the investigation. — Bernama
