<h1>Bid rigging and market allocation found; anticompetitive agreements led to penalties and orders to cease such conduct.</h1> The Commission found suppliers to a government tender guilty of bid rigging and market allocation, constituting anticompetitive agreements under the Competition Act, 2002, based on identical or near identical bids that fixed rates and restricted supply; it imposed penalties on each firm at five percent of average gross turnover for specified years, required payment within sixty days, and directed cessation of such conduct.