Health and security in worksites - Consip tender: investigation proceedings on possible agreements between the main market operators
PRESS RELEASE
At its meeting of March 14th, 2018, the Italian Competition Authority (ICA) resolved to initiate a preliminary investigation proceedings on the following companies: Com Metodi s.p.a., Deloitte Consulting s.r.l. , Synthesis s.p.a., Adecco Formazione s.r.l. , Archè s.c.a.r.l., CSA Team s.r.l. , Nier Ingegneria s.p.a., Projit s.r.l. , Igeam s.r.l. , Igeamed s.r.l. , Igeam Academy s.r.l. , STI s.p.a., Exitone s.p.a. and Informa s.r.l. , in order to ascertain an alleged agreement in violation of article 101 of the TFUE, for the supply of integrated health and security services on worksites.
In particular, these companies would have coordinated their behavior when presenting the offers for participating in the public tender launched by Consip S.p.A. in December 2015 on integrated management health and security services on worksites intended for Public Administrations (Fourth Edition), in order to share the services object of this procedure.
Yesterday, March 21st, the Antitrust’s officials carried out inspections in the offices of some of the companies interested by the procedure, with the assistance of the Special Antitrust Unit of the Guardia di Finanza.
This proceedings will end by June 30th, 2019.
Rome, 22 March 2018