"The thing is like this." President Hamanaka explained the case to the two lawyers in front of him, "Our club started to undertake municipal procurement business about three years ago. In the first year, there was no problem with payment.

.So, we decided to increase investment and further expand our business scale in municipal procurement."

"The problem arose when we decided to undertake municipal procurement as our main business." Hamaka subconsciously wanted to touch the cigarettes in his pocket, but his hand stopped again.

"Now that I think about it, I feel like everything is a trap. I'll give you a taste of the sweetness first, and then I'll let you in. Then, after you actually win the bid for several large-scale municipal procurement projects and invest real money and resources in these projects,

You will find that you can no longer get money from the city hall."

"At the beginning, we made great efforts and contracted the projects of several overpasses in Shinjuku District. These overpasses also required escalators and bridge railing display screens. These add-ons faced the problem of being protected from rain and snow in the open air. It was a high-cost and laborious task.

It’s a gratifying job. But we gritted our teeth and did it anyway.”

"The result is that starting from the overpass payment, the Shinjuku City Hall will not pay. They keep finding various reasons why they need approval. They are undergoing an audit recently and cannot allocate funds for the time being. Or the supervisor is on a business trip and cannot sign, or the unit

The seal has recently been changed, or our request information is incomplete, etc. In short, these are all kinds of excuses."

"When we gradually discovered that several large-scale projects we were involved in were experiencing delays in payment, we were ready to quit." Binzhou continued, "At that time, the Shinjuku City City Hall came to us again."

"I came to see you again? Are you talking about repayment?" Miyagawa asked.

Hamanaka clenched his fists as if he was thinking of some unbearable meeting, "They have set up a new set for us. Let us participate in the Shinjuku District High-tech Industrial Park project."

Hearing the name of this project, Miyagawa opened his mouth slightly, "I know this project. It is an industrial park project promoted by the Governor of Tokyo and the District Council. It is said that many high-tech enterprise headquarters are planning to move in.

There are even big companies like Microsoft in the West.”

Hamanaka nodded, "Yes, that's what the people at Shinjuku City Hall told us at the beginning. They said that this is a very important project in Tokyo, and even many members of Congress and various cabinet ministries are paying attention to this industrial park.

The progress of the project. The Shinjuku City City Hall made a request to allow our club to advance funds to build some of the industrial park’s infrastructure.”

"Add... advance funds for construction?" Miyagawa couldn't believe his ears when he heard this. This kind of behavior can be said to be an obvious robbery. And it happened in Tokyo, which he has been familiar with since childhood.

"Then do you agree?"

Hamaka nodded.

"Why?!" Miyagawa couldn't help but asked.

"People from the Shinjuku City Hall said that if we help make this payment, they promise that, first, they will pay off the debts owed to us by the city hall in the past. Second, they will pay the municipal government in the Shinjuku City High-tech Industrial Park

For procurement projects, we will be invited to participate in the bidding, and we will be stated to increase the bidding score based on our company's past service contribution to Shinjuku City. In other words, we can get more projects from the city hall. And, once these projects are awarded,

The council will prepay more than 40%."

"At the beginning, I didn't want to agree to the people in the city hall." Hamanaka said, "However, it was all my fault. It was really all my fault. I thought about it again at the time and felt that since this industrial park is in the political and industrial circles,

Still, the press was paying so much attention to it, so I felt that Shinjuku City would never default on its debt again, so... So in the end, I agreed."

"I really shouldn't have! I shouldn't have!" Hamanaka hammered himself hard several times, "I invested most of the company's working capital. But...but, the city hall lied to us, lied

us!!"

Hamanaka's mood became more and more agitated.

"The past payments have not been settled. As for those high-quality bidding projects and projects with large prepayment ratios, they have squeezed us out."

"How did the city hall exclude you?" Miyagawa asked immediately.

"There are so many, so many tricks that you can't imagine!!" Hamanaka took out a thick stack of bidding documents from his bag, "For example, the bidding project requires that every page of the bidding document must be stamped

, but we only left the cover and the last page of the paper unstamped, and as a result, they declared our entire bidding document invalid."

"For another example, our club sent a representative to participate in the bidding of a sub-project of the industrial park. Just because our power of attorney did not specify the name of the sub-project, but the name of the major project within this sub-project.

Just like that, something was wrong with our power of attorney, and our club’s representative was asked to leave the venue.”

"What's even more outrageous is that once, our club sent representatives to participate in the bidding. At that time, the deadline for submitting bidding documents was 9:30. We had all the documents ready, but the tendering party kept confiscating them and let them

We stood by and waited. As a result, it was 9:29, which was only about ten seconds away from 9:30. At this time, the tender began to receive documents. By the time our documents were received, it was already 9:31.

The tenderer announced that it would not accept the bid.”

"At that time, the city hall recommended 20 or 30 high-quality bidding projects to us, but almost all of them were wiped out. They were just deceiving people, completely deceiving people!!! Later I went to check, and those who won the bid,

It’s obviously their relationship, this is unfair, unfair!!”

"Are you saying they rigged the bid?" Miyagawa said.

【Bidding Rigging】

The so-called bid-rigging means that bidders collude and cooperate with each other and agree that if a certain person wins the bid, they will share the benefits.

"Guess their bid-rigging tactics." Hamaka smiled bitterly, "Lawyer Miyagawa, Lawyer Kitahara, you can't even imagine how ridiculous it is."

"One project is particularly exaggerated. They have already planned it. There are 11 companies participating in the bidding. As a result, the bidding prices of 8 companies do not meet the requirements of the bidding documents. How come they do not comply with the law? The bidding documents require that the price be kept in decimals.

For the latter one, these eight companies all chose to retain the two decimal places of the price. As a result, all eight companies' bidding documents were declared invalid. The remaining three companies were all their own, which just met the minimum three price comparison requirements."

"Bad, this is simply too bad!!" Hamaka couldn't help but say.

"There is also a bidding project for the printing of invoices, internal bills, and documents. Our club already has the qualification to print publications. This is the highest licensing qualification in the printing industry. And the printing of these invoices, internal bills,

The printing industry falls under the license qualification of 'Other Printing Materials'. As a result, the city hall excluded us from the tender list on the grounds that we did not have the license qualification of 'Other Printing Materials'. This is a big joke! It is like a lawyer having a lawyer

Qualification certificate, but the law does not allow lawyers to engage in the business of agency industrial and commercial registration."

Hamanaka's expression became more and more angry as he thought of all the injustices and phenomena. In the office, he finally couldn't help but said loudly: "I don't understand why the people in the city hall dare to do this. Is there any way to do this?"
Chapter completed!