Alleged bid-rigging rendezvous 'animated by intention,' Australian court hears

By Ryan Cropp ( November 13, 2024, 05:46 GMT | Insight) -- An Australian building-maintenance operator’s arrangement of a meeting with a key competitor for a lucrative government contract was “animated by intention” and had no obvious benign purpose, an appeals court heard today. In a Federal Court of Australia hearing, lawyer Robert Yezerski, acting for the country’s competition regulator, said that if taken in its full context, the conduct of Delta Building Automation director Timothy Davis at a December 2019 meeting in Canberra sufficiently conveyed a bid-rigging proposal that was capable of assent.An Australian building-maintenance operator’s arrangement of a meeting with a key competitor for a lucrative government contract was “animated by intention” and had no obvious benign purpose, an appeals court heard today....

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Alleged bid-rigging rendezvous 'animated by intention,' Australian court hears

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