a few seconds agoThree companies investigated for price fraud of cytostatics
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The Kosovar Authority of Competition on the basis of information and suspicion of prohibited agreements, the implementation of bids in public tenders has filed investigative procedures against three private companies for violations in the Health Ministry's tenders for cystatic supplies from the essential drug list. The AKK will investigate companies “Redo HM” “Exclusive Corporation” and [...]
The AKK will investigate companies “Redo HM” “Exclusive Corporation” and “Exclusive” because it has doubts that they have offered the non-real sale price.
“The Ministry of Health over the years according to needs and requirements has announced tenders with open procedure for supply of drugs from the Essencial List, in which the tender has been defined in different types of grass IMAKREBIN Imatinib Medieval 400mg. This bar is distributed free from USKKUK's central drug and used by patients suffering from severe cancer and leukemia. Over the years (from 2015 to 2017) the demands of the MSH according to our evidence, provided by the MSH, SKKUK, Kosovo Customs, appear to be different”, the AKK report said.
Also, the prices imported for the grass are different, from producers and various countries. According to the supply evidence with this kind of grass started with the public framework contract of the MSH in 2012, and has continued until October 2017. If we make comparison with import/minor prices and contracted prices in public tenders, it notes that there is doubt that companies have offered the non-real sale price, compared to customs prices imported”, it is further said.
The AKK's doubts are that companies have reached prohibited agreements between economic operators or have been co-ordinated to co-ordinate their activities, which secretly agree on the rise of prices for buyers in this case “contracting authorities” who have needed to provide products through public procurement procedures for the Esensual Medicine List.
Our “According to our evidence in the bidding bids there are signals that these companies have applied the method or principle of rotation in the setting up of tenders in the winning”, the report said.
