Transaction: The French Competition Council specifies the scope of transaction procedure while sanctioning bid rigging practices (Onet / Spid)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Following a decision n° 08-D-13 rendered yesterday, 11 June 2008, the Council of competition has come to punish two cleaning companies for having heard within the framework of a call for tenders launched by the Public Office departmental council housing estate in Mayenne. In essence, the company Onet service and three companies of the SPID group deliberately coordinated the level and the structure of their bids, exchanged information prior to the to promote this coordination, have positioned their offers to make the Spid Group's offers appear as and have consequently artificially increased and significantly the price of cleaning services passed on in the