Construction bids: patterns emerge
The indefatigable Linda Gyulai digs through municipal construction bids and finds patterns suggesting firms colluded on sharing out work, taking turns grabbing the bigger contracts and similar trends suggesting the companies made pacts to get work doled out as they wished. Explanations of the patterns are at the bottom of the article.
On a related theme, the Charbonneau commission is about to resume, and the Gazette ponders how deep it will dig.