Competition record
F. Allied Construction
Deep profile · 1 linked library matter
F Allied Construction is a Michigan contractor named in the asphalt paving bid-rigging case. Prosecutors described cover bids that made a pre-chosen winner look like the result of a real auction.
Overview
F Allied Construction is a Michigan paving contractor. Owners who need a road, a yard, or a parking lot ask firms like this one for a price. The Sherman Act treats an agreement among those firms on who will win as a criminal bid-rig.
In the Michigan asphalt investigation, competitors arranged the winner and used cover bids so the other quotes would lose on purpose. F Allied Construction is named in that prosecution with Asphalt Specialists and Al's Asphalt. The customer's stack of bids looked like a competition and functioned as a script.
Asphalt Specialists' corporate fine was $6.5 million, and corporate fines in the investigation exceeded $8.2 million. The library status is fined. This profile does not give F Allied Construction a fine of its own.
Competition footprint
A cover bid is a number submitted to lose, so the designated contractor can win.
Public and private paving jobs in Michigan were the contracts in the case.
The dollar figures stated for this investigation are ASI's fine and the overall corporate total.
Consumer & business angle
The property owner or the highway agency paid the arranged price.
ASI and Al's Asphalt are the other paving firms this library places in the same case.
What to watch
- Estimating-room rules that forbid trading a bid number with a competing paver.
- Any judgment or plea that states F Allied's own penalty, which is not copied into this profile.
Markets
asphalt paving · Michigan construction · local construction · government contracting · small business cartels
Also known as: f allied construction, f. allied