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Langan Insulation
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Langan Insulation is a Connecticut contractor that wraps pipe and ductwork on commercial buildings. This library id is the criminal insulation bid-rigging case, and the library status is fined.
Overview
Langan Insulation installs mechanical insulation in Connecticut. The work is the jacket on heating and cooling pipes and ducts, often inside hospitals, universities, and other large buildings. General contractors invite specialty firms to price that package.
The firm pleaded in a Justice Department case that treated the bidding as a criminal Sherman Act conspiracy. Insulation contractors shared the jobs through cover bids, so the owner saw more than one price and the winner had already been chosen. Axion Specialty Contracting is the other specialty firm this library names in the same case.
The library status is fined. Langan's place in the file is the Connecticut firm that insulated pipe and duct on the rigged institutional jobs.
Competition footprint
Pipe-and-duct insulation is a specialty subcontract with few local bidders.
Cover bids are the method the case describes.
Fined is the status, and the sentence details are not in this profile.
Consumer & business angle
Hospitals, universities, and the general contractors who hired the insulation firm paid the rigged package price.
Axion was a rival specialty contractor in the same Connecticut bids.
What to watch
- Bid files on institutional insulation packages, where a pattern of complementary prices is the warning sign.
- The Axion profile, which is the same criminal case without a sentence figure.
Markets
mechanical insulation · Connecticut construction · mechanical insulation contracting · local construction · hospital and university construction · small business cartels
Also known as: langan insulation