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Senam, Muhamad Rosdi and Mohd Zaini, Rapiah and Mohd Shariff, Shahrul Nizar (2025) 01-044-Criminalisation to combat bid rigging in Public Procurement. Proceedings from the International Congress on Project Management and Engineering. pp. 315-326. ISSN 26955067

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Abstract

Healthy competition in every process of procurement is essential to competitive bidding that delivers the best value of money and non-monetary to stakeholders. In contradiction, monopoly like regime and anticompetitive practices are destructive that disallows fair bidding, denying the best acceptable tender coming with innovative solutions, products and services. It is also leading to corruption. Literature has highlighted, bid rigging cartels are very harmful and damaging to Public Procurement that citizens are ending up paying higher prices and the Government is losing best value for every cent spent per trade. It is a major threat and combating bid rigging is crucial. Despite persistent efforts by Government authorities to penalise offenders, the bid rigging cartel is still rampant. Therefore, there should be heavier punishments for deterrence and prevention other than financial penalty as in the current Competition Act in Malaysia. This paper aims to evaluate whether criminalisation of bid rigging offenses is effective to be as a deterrence mechanism in the future. The methodology employs online questionnaire surveys to respondents from Public Works Department of Malaysia (PWD) and relevant agencies. The main findings were that criminalisation can be imposed and effective to combat bid rigging in Public Procurement as a long term deterrence mechanism. ©

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Criminalisation, public procurement
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management > HD39-40.7 Capital. Capital investments
Divisions:	Faculty of Management (FOM)
Depositing User:	Ms Rosnani Abd Wahab
Date Deposited:	22 Dec 2025 08:28
Last Modified:	22 Dec 2025 08:28
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/15130

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