Proxy bidding for winning tender tantamount to anti-competitive act under Competition Act

Competition Act: Where in tenders floated by OP-3 for 'design, supply, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of municipal organic and inorganic solid waste processing plant(s)', OP bidders submitted cover/proxy bid to aid OP-2 to win tender and thus, had indulged in bid-rigging in contravention to provisions of section 3, penalty was to be imposed on OPs and their office bearers

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