CARTEL SCREENING IN PUBLIC TENDERS OF ROADWAY GUARDRAIL

Abstract

The Competition Board has opened an investigation with the decision of 27.04.2017 on the seven guardrail producers and their association (TOD). The Board has alleged that these producers restricted the competition in the guardrail tenders by determining jointly their bids (price quotations) in these tenders under TOD. In this article, it was analyzed whether a competition infringement occurred or not by using a wide range of data on guardrail tenders. The results showed that the ratios between price quotations of producers and the approximate costs announced by the Administration (bid / approximate cost) have increased in 2016 as claimed by the Board. However, this increase did not arise from the fact that TOD members who are parties to the investigation are in a cooperation restricting the competition. Instead, the reason for this increase is that the actual costs incurred by the producers increased while the approximate costs announced by the Administration in 2016 fell.

Keywords

• Guardrail,Competition,Public Tender,General Directorate of Highways

OTOKORKULUK İHALELERİNDE KARTEL TARAMASI

Abstract

Rekabet Kurulu 27.04.2017 tarihli kararında yedi otokorkuluk üreticisine ve bu üreticilerin kurmuş olduğu sektör derneğine (TOD) soruşturma başlatmıştır. Kurul, bu üreticilerin otokorkuluk ihalelerinde verdikleri fiyatları TOD çatısı altında birlikte belirlemek suretiyle aralarındaki rekabeti kısıtladıklarını iddia etmiştir. Bu makalede, otokorkuluk ihalelerine ilişkin geniş bir veriseti kullanılarak rekabet ihlalinin oluşup oluşmadığı analiz edilecektir. Sonuçlar, Kurul tarafından iddia edildiği gibi fiyat teklifleri ile İdare tarafından açıklanan yaklaşık maliyetlerin oranlanmasından oluşan teklif oranlarının (teklif/yaklaşık maliyet) 2016 yılında arttığını göstermektedir. Ancak, bu artış soruşturmaya taraf olan teşebbüslerin rekabeti kısıtlamalarından kaynaklanmamaktadır. Artışın nedeni, 2016 yılında bir yandan üreticilerin katlandıkları maliyetler artarken diğer yandan İdare’nin yaklaşık maliyeti düşürmesidir.

Keywords

• Otokorkuluk,Rekabet,Kamu İhalesi,Karayolları Genel Müdürlüğü

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