Tokyo, Nov. 11 (Jiji Press)–The Japan Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday conducted on-site inspections of the transportation bureau of the Tokyo metropolitan government and six construction firms for alleged bid-rigging, people familiar with the matter told Jiji Press. The firms are suspected of rigging bids for construction work ordered by the bureau to maintain railroad tracks. They are Totetsu Kogyo Co., Tsuboi Corp., Hayakawa Kensetsu, Tokyu Kidoh Kogyo Co., Nisshin Kogyo and Sankikensetsu Inc., a unit of Kyushu Railway Co. The firms allegedly started conspiring several years ago to prearrange winners of bids for track maintenance work on railways run by the transportation bureau, people familiar with the matter said. The railways include the Toei Asakusa, Mita, Shinjuku and Oedo subway lines, the Toden Arakawa tram line and the Nippori-Toneri driverless transit line. Totetsu Kogyo successfully won a bidding in April 2024 for work to renew rails between Azabujuban and Roppongi stations on the Oedo Line for 259.6 million yen. Tokyu Kidoh was awarded a contract for work on the Mita Line at 170 million yen in a bidding in June the same year. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
EXCLUSIVE: FTC Inspects Tokyo Transportation Bureau, 6 Firms
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