美国司法部成立新力量来打击串通投标行为

周二，助理司法部长Delrahim在司法部宣布成立打击采购共谋新力量的仪式上发表讲话。 图片来源：CLIFF OWEN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Justice Department says it is stepping up efforts to target bid-rigging and other types of collusion that cheat the government in the contracting process.

美国司法部表示，正在加大力度来打击在承包过程中欺骗政府的串通投标和其他类型的共谋行为。

Department officials on Tuesday announced a new strike force to focus on procurement collusion, which occurs when companies seeking business with the government agree among themselves on what prices or bids they will submit instead of competing at arm’s length. The government spends more than $550 billion annually on contracts for goods and services—a total that includes defense spending.

司法部官员周二宣布，将成立新的打击力量，重点打击采购共谋行为，即那些寻求与政府开展业务的企业就其将提交的价格或出价方面达成一致，而不是保持距离、彼此竞争。美国政府每年在商品和服务合同上的支出超过5,500亿美元，其中包括国防支出。

The new effort is focused on investigating and prosecuting violations that suppress competition and artificially raise costs for government contracts, as well as on boosting procurement training designed to head off antitrust crimes against the government before they occur.

新举措的重点是调查和起诉那些压制竞争、人为提高政府合同成本的违规行为，以及加强采购培训，以预防针对政府的垄断犯罪发生。

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, head of the department’s antitrust division, said more than a third of the division’s 100-plus open criminal investigations relate to public procurement or otherwise involve the government being a victim of criminal conduct.

助理司法部长、反垄断部门负责人Makan Delrahim称，在司法部的100多起公开刑事调查中，超过三分之一的案件与公共采购有关，或涉及政府成为犯罪行为的受害者。

Collusion, Mr. Delrahim said, leads to higher prices and lower-quality goods and services. “This is no less true in the area of public procurement, where the customer is the government and the American taxpayer foots the bill,” he said.

Delrahim表示，共谋导致价格上涨，商品和服务质量下降。他说：“在公共采购领域，情况也是如此。在该领域，客户是政府，埋单的是美国纳税人。”

The announcement comes on the heels of recent Justice Department cases targeting South Korean companies that rigged bids and fixed prices for fuel supplied to U.S. military bases located in the country.

美国司法部最近对韩国企业提起诉讼，指控其在供应给驻韩美军基地的燃料上操纵投标和价格。

The department also has started bringing cases that target distortions of the bidding process in auctions run by the General Services Administration, which sells surplus computer equipment and other goods that are no longer needed by government agencies.

美国司法部也已开始对在美国总务管理局(General Services Administration)拍卖中试图扭曲投标过程的行为提起诉讼。总务管理局负责出售多余的电脑设备和其他政府机构不再需要的物品。

Brent Kendall

2019年11月7日10:59 CST 更新

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