Bid Rigging; Penalties; Prohibitions.

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6-5-402. Bid rigging; penalties; prohibitions.

(a) A person commits bid rigging when he knowingly conspires with any other person who is or would be a competitor to any submitted or not submitted bid to a governmental entity with the intent that the bid submitted or not submitted will result in the award of a public contract to the person or to another person and the person:

(i) Provides the other person or receives from the other person or another person information concerning the price or a material term of any bid that would otherwise not be disclosed to a competitor in an independent, non-collusive submission of bids; or

(ii) Submits a bid that is of such price or other material term that he does not intend the bid to be accepted.

(b) Bid rigging is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), or both.


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