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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has widened its active probe into suspected bid-rigging on school roofing contracts to cover activity by more firms.<\/p>\n

Its investigation now includes unnamed \u201cadditional parties\u201d, the watchdog announced yesterday (29 January) in a statement.<\/p>\n

The probe. launched in December, was originally focused on roofing and other construction-related contracts funded through the Department for Education\u2019s (DfE\u2019s) Condition Improvement Fund (CIF), to explore whether firms breached the Competition Act 1998.<\/p>\n

Based on the evidence reviewed to date, however, the CMA believes that suspected anti-competitive conduct went beyond schools eligible for CIF funding.<\/p>\n

Construction News <\/em>understands that the CMA now suspects similar conduct may have affected construction contracts funded by other public and private sector bodies, not just the DfE.<\/p>\n

For the 2025\/26 financial year, the DfE provided almost \u00a3470m in CIF funding to address condition issues in eligible schools, academies and sixth-form colleges.<\/p>\n

In announcing the launch of the investigation<\/a> in December 2024, the watchdog said it had already conducted \u201cunannounced inspections\u201d at multiple business premises.<\/p>\n

It said it had \u201creason to suspect\u201d that firms providing roofing and construction services had colluded to fix bids for DfE-funded work.<\/p>\n

If the CMA provisionally decides that the companies have broken competition law, it will issue a statement of objections, with firms having the opportunity to respond.<\/p>\n

But in its latest update, the CMA said it did not assume \u201cat this stage\u201d that the Competition Act had been broken.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CMA has not reached a view as to whether there is sufficient evidence of an infringement of competition law for it to issue a statement of objections to any of the parties under investigation,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

A CMA spokesperson said no further details are available on the case or companies being investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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