In an important reminder that government departments and agencies can easily be the target of anti-competitive arrangements, a US-based defence technology company has recently admitted to engaging in collusive tendering in contravention of the competition law provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v DRS C3 Systems Inc NSD588/2009, orders made by Edmonds J on 5 February 2010). The conduct related to a procurement project of the Commonwealt
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