Assuming that 26 printing companies have repeated more than 100 bid rigging in bidding for printing and shipping of "Nenkin regular flights" ordered by the Japan Pension Service, the Fair Trade Commission has set a total of 1.7 billion yen for each company. I ordered to pay the surcharge.
A total of 26 companies, including "Toyo Paper Industry" and "Nakabayashi" headquartered in Osaka, and "Kyodo Printing" and "Toppan Forms" headquartered in Tokyo, were confirmed by the Fair Trade Commission's investigation. am.
According to the Japan Fair Trade Commission, from May 2016 at the latest, 26 companies will create and ship printed materials ordered by the Japan Pension Service, such as "Nenkin Regular Service" that informs the expected amount of pension receipt and notification of pension transfer. It means that they had repeated bid rigging to discuss and decide the company and price to win the bid.
The number of contracts for which the contractor has been decided by the bid rigging is 118, and the total amount is estimated to be at least 18.3 billion yen.
The Fair Trade Commission ordered 24 of these companies to pay a total surcharge of more than 1.74 billion yen, and issued a cease and desist order to each company to prevent recurrence.
In the investigation of this rigging, it was found that the Japan Pension Service, the ordering party, had obtained the rigging information in advance, but did not notify the Fair Trade Commission. We requested that the response be improved, such as by reporting.