MPB spends 65 thousand euros on only 500 catalogs

The newspaper Life in Kosovo has found this award is part of the contract worth 19.8m euros for the delivery of passports, IDs, driver's license and maintenance of their systems.

The contract, bound in July 2016, envisions printing of 500 catalogs.

If everything goes according to the contract, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will pay up to 65 thousand euros to handle these catalogs.

The contract describes catalogs as up to 40 pages of A4 colors.

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Life in Kosovo Report Contacted MPBs to ask him about the purpose and accuracy of the color catalogation price.

The MPB Communications Office has made it known that catalogs were not printed.

While asked whether it can be printed in Kosovo, The MPB has responded that “is not produced in Kosovo because the contractor for supply is the German company “Veridos”, which is mandated under the contract to make the production of these geox3> catalogues.

Also, in the question of price reasonableness and the purpose of printing MPB catalogues, it has not responded clearly but has given another reason for printing catalogues in Germany.

Because the catalog will contain documents, as well as their description and content (which contains classified information), this conditions that even the catalogus be printed by the contracting company, where expenses are jointly calculated for the creation of a catalogue, during the procedure of reaching the” contract, the ministry has responded. /The Life in Kosovo/