Competition record
Axion Specialty Contracting
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Axion Specialty Contracting is a Connecticut insulation contractor. It is in the library's criminal bid-rigging case over insulation jobs, and the library status is fined.
Overview
Axion Specialty Contracting does mechanical insulation, the specialty trade that covers pipe and duct on commercial buildings so heating and cooling systems hold their temperature. Hospitals, universities, and similar owners bid that work as a subcontract package.
The Justice Department prosecuted Connecticut insulation contractors for rigging those bids. Cover bids made a pre-selected contractor look like the winner of a real competition. Axion is one of the firms in the library file, with Langan Insulation. The statute is the criminal Sherman Act.
The library status is fined. Axion's part in the file is the specialty contractor on those rigged insulation bids.
Competition footprint
Insulation packages are a thin subcontract inside a larger building job, and they are still bid.
A cover bid hides which specialty contractor was chosen in advance.
The recorded status is a criminal fine case, without a sentence length in this profile.
Consumer & business angle
Hospitals, universities, and general contractors paid for insulation tenders that were not honest.
Langan Insulation is the other contractor this library names in the same Connecticut case.
What to watch
- How specialty-trade estimators are trained that a courtesy bid for a rival is a criminal problem.
- Public bidding rules for mechanical subcontractors on institutional projects.
Markets
mechanical insulation · Connecticut specialty contracting · mechanical insulation contracting · local construction · hospital and university construction · small business cartels
Also known as: axion specialty contracting, axion insulation