Bid Rigging/Collusive Tendering

Where a contracting authority suspects bid-rigging or collusive tendering, e.g. where a number of competitors seek to conspire in secret regarding who might win a particular tender competition, such activities represent serious infringements of competition law and should be brought to the attention of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.

It is an offence under the Criminal Justice Act 2011 to withhold information which he or she knows or believes might be of material assistance in preventing the commission by any other person of a relevant offence, or securing the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of any other person for a relevant offence, without reasonable excuse to disclose that information as soon as it is practicable to do so to a member of the Garda Síochána.