Bid rigging has long been a priority of the Romanian Competition
Council ("RCC"), and a few years back,
it set up a separate department looking to deal in particular with
this type of infringement. In addition, in 2017, the RCC issued two
guides on anticompetitive conduct in relation to (public) tenders
– one Guide regarding participation in a public tender in a
consortium and one Guide aimed at identifying anticompetitive
procedures during (public) tenders. However, recently the RCC aims
to refine its approach to benefit from modern technology. To this
end, the RCC will acquire a Big Data IT system, to be used to
identify likely bid rigging cases. The acquisition of the IT system
will be financed with EUR 10.7 million of non-reimbursable EU
funds. The project will be developed in partnership with the
Special Telecommunications Service STS, which will provide the
know-how and logistic support.
