A former Quebec engineering firm executive has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and six months under curfew after pleading guilty in Quebec court Thursday to rigging bids for City of Gatineau infrastructure contracts.

According to a statement from the Competition Bureau, Dave Boulay, former director and assistant vice-president for the Outaouais for the Dessau engineering firm “admitted to participating in a bid-rigging scheme from 2006 to 2008 in which several engineering firms conspired to divide up City of Gatineau contracts among themselves.”

Criminal charges were laid in June 2018 against Boulay and three other engineering executives following a Competition Bureau investigation. They were charged in connection with bid-rigging on 21 City of Gatineau infrastructure contracts awarded between 2004 and 2008.

According to the bureau, evidence suggested that engineering firms Dessau, Cima+ and Genivar “strategically divided contracts awarded by the City of Gatineau among themselves” and “secretly fixed prices submitted in response to City of Gatineau calls for tenders.”

The bureau said Gatineau was not aware of the alleged bid-rigging scheme.

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