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Competition Commission of India (\u2018CCI\u2019): <\/strong>CCI has imposed penalties on 7 cement companies for bid rigging of a tender floated by the Director, Supplies & Disposals, Haryana, in the year 2012, for procurement of cement to be supplied to Government Departments\/ Boards\/ Corporations in the State of Haryana.\u00a0A final order has been passed by CCI pursuant to a reference filed under Section 19(1)(b) of the Competition Act, 2002 (\u2018the Act\u2019) by the Director, Supplies & Disposals, Haryana.<\/p>\n

\u00a0CCI has held that the cement companies, through their impugned conduct, have engaged in bid-rigging, in contravention of the provisions of Section 3(3)(d) read with Section 3(1) of the Act, which eliminated and lessened competition and manipulated the bidding process in respect of the impugned tender. The bid-rigging has been established from quoting of unusually higher rates in the impugned tender (than rates quoted in tenders of previous years), determining different basic prices for supply of cement at the same destination through reverse calculation, quoting of quantities in the impugned tender such that the total bid quantity almost equalled the total tendered quantity, quoting of rates for the districts in a manner that all cement companies acquired L1 status at some of the destination(s)\u00a0etc<\/em>. The anti-competitive conduct was re-affirmed through SMS exchanged and calls made amongst the officials of the cement companies.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Accordingly, penalty of \u00a0Rs. 18.44 crore, Rs. 68.30 crore, Rs. 38.02 crore, Rs. 9.26 crore, Rs. 29.84 crore, Rs. 35.32 crore and Rs. 6.55 crore has been imposed upon Shree Cement Limited, UltraTech Cement Limited, Jaiprakash Associates Limited, J.K. Cement Limited, Ambuja Cements Limited, ACC Limited and J.K. Lakshmi Cement Limited. The penalty has been levied @ 0.3% of the average turnover of the cement companies of preceding three years. While imposing penalties, Commission took note of potential delay which would have occurred in the execution of public infrastructure projects due to cancellation of the impugned tender. At the same time, due consideration was given to factors such as peculiarity of the tender process which created uncertainty in procurement, total size of the impugned tender and competition compliance programmes put in place by some companies while determining the quantum of penalty.\u00a0The cement companies have been directed to cease and desist from indulging in the acts\/ conduct which have been held to be in contravention of the provisions of the Act. [Director, Supplies & Disposals, Haryana v.\u00a0Shree Cement Ltd., 2017 SCC OnLine CCI 2<\/a>, decided on 19-01-2017]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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