Bidding case over the Tokyo Olympics Is the Organizing Committee side adjusting subcontractors for companies that have not bid?(November 30, 2022)

In a bid-rigging case surrounding the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, it was found that adjustments were made to subcontract work to the winning bidder in return for not participating in the bidding for multiple companies. There are suspicions of collusion over the bidding for the test tournament, and in addition to the advertising giants Dentsu and Hakuhodo, which won bids, several event production companies were searched by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and the Fair Trade Commission. received. Subsequent interviews with related parties revealed that the Organizing Committee and Dentsu seem to have coordinated with multiple companies to subcontract the work to the companies that won the bids in return for not participating in the bidding. It means that the company that actually postponed the bid received the order as a subcontractor. The Special Investigation Department and others are believed to be investigating whether the organizing committee and Dentsu took the lead in coordinating the orders.
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