Anustup Chandra Heavy Electricals Ltd., is a major player in the league of manufacture of heavy industrial boilers and steam turbine. The company had won a major bid for a big project in Colombo for fabrication of 10,000

The line of investigation after looking into the indicators/red flags shall consist of:- Prepare a questionnaire for interviewing the complainants and those who failed but rated good and conduct interview of the complainants and investigate through confidential sources. Data collection paper trail: bid documents, requests for bids, bid comparison documents prepared internally, Bill of Quantities (BoQs), comparison line item wise and bid securities. Identify physical similarities in the bid documents like paper quality, colour schemes, type, faces, formatting, language, etc. Connection between bidders on inter-company connections, common address, contacts details, etc. Unusual bidding patterns comparing the financial and quantity data line item wise. Test whether they are exact percentages or value apart. Conduct a physical verification check of the addresses given by the bidders in question to see whether they are operating from same building or not. Background check on the final shortlisted bidders for finding out common ownership, employees, affiliations or prior involvement in the other collusive bidding schemes. Review the bid security details in order to identify whether issued by same bank and branch to group of bidders and/or issued to bidder by the same day in all the cases. Most bid documents have a special enquiry / audit enabler clause. Exercising that right on the winning bidder is conducted as a routine formality. Instead, a detailed inquiry can be made into the business of the winning bidder. Interviewing the winning bidder based on the information collected and from the above processes and as given by them in bid documents. Also have interview of the three complainants and all of the other bidders who have lost the bid to find out the reasons of their failure.