Cape Town – Tourism agencies supplying air tickets and accommodation to members of Parliament have been accused of collusion by the Competition Commission in a tender that is worth almost R100 million.
Tourvest Holdings and Trigon Travel are accused of colluding when bidding for the tender in 2015.
The winning bidder would have to process an estimated 28000 transactions for an annual spend of R100m during the contracting period.
The commission, which investigates contraventions of the Competition Act before referring such cases to the tribunal for prosecution, claims that the relationship between Tourvest and Trigon created an incentive for them to coordinate their bids in respect of the tender.
The commission said there was no other reasonable inference that could be drawn, other than that the companies submitted the same bid as a result of collusion.
The companies’ legal representatives delivered closing arguments befor
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