{"id":4220,"date":"2019-03-21T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2019-03-21T12:26:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:26:22","slug":"competition-probe-launched-into-construction-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/competition-probe-launched-into-construction-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition probe launched into construction services"},"content":{"rendered":"

The competition watchdog has launched a probe into possible collusion in the supply of construction services in Britain.<\/p>\n

The Competition & Markets Authority has confirmed it is investigating suspected anti-competitive arrangements but has not specified the industry sector or scale of the inquiry.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman said: “Investigations are at an early stage and we are unable to provide any more detail as part of the fact-finding phase of inquiries.”<\/p>\n

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Information gathering is expected to run to September of this year.<\/p>\n

Ten years ago in what turned out to be one of the biggest bid-rigging scandals to hit the UK 103 construction firms were fined \u00a363m after widespread cover pricing was revealed. That same year, six recruitment agencies in the industry were fined a total of \u00a37.9m for collusion and price fixing.<\/p>\n

Last year the CMA revealed it would be targetting construction in a fresh crackdown on cartels.<\/p>\n

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The government has handed its fair trade watchdog an extra \u00a32.8m specifically for its crusade.<\/p>\n

And last month this saw five south east fit-out contractors fined a total of \u00a37m after admitting being involved in cover pricing.<\/p>\n

At the start of the year another CMA probe saw two concrete drainage products producers admit to breaking competition laws by taking part in a cartel.<\/p>\n

The products were used in large infrastructure projects across Great Britain, including water management, roads and railways.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/2WgYewa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The competition watchdog has launched a probe into possible collusion in the supply of construction services in Britain. The Competition & Markets Authority has confirmed it is investigating suspected anti-competitive arrangements but has not specified the industry sector or scale of the inquiry. A spokeswoman said: “Investigations are at an early stage and we are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-4220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}