Svechla's ministry acted illegally with tender for passports, O HOP turns it into reevaluation

Since nearly 1 year, tenders of the great value had been opened by the Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs procurement, titled “Powering with personal identification documents and the maintenance of electronic systems”. The projected value of the contract was 12 million and 524 thousand euros, as seen by the title, in addition to the supply included maintenance of the system for three years. After the complaint, in the end, the MPB decided to cancel this tender, but in advance the negotiations had started with the German company “Verridos GmbH” for a new tender, with negotiation. In the end, he decided that the initial tender would be cancelled and supplied by the German company, which he awarded in December last year by contract of 4m and 21,000 euros.

The two companies that were in the race in the first open tender, when they saw the ministry cancel the tender procedure, complained to the ministry, claiming that the annulment of the procedure was illegal. Their antennas were rejected, and they then decided to complain to the Procureing Organization-- O HOP, since this allows the Public Procure Law - LPP.

It's company complaints. “Augetic GmbH; In Groups at home, at the value of the 12329261, 27 euros, and group of companies, “Muhlbauer ID Services GmbH; Ymako KPS, worth the 12456071 bid, 43 euros.

Right after the complaints, O The E.P. has authorized its two experts to see the evidence. Periscop has reported that experts have found that the MP has illegally annulled this procurement procedure, so they have recommended to the board that the ministry's decision to cancel the tender annulment and the subject be turned into re-evaluation with race bids.

As Periscope saw, O panel The EP has made the decision several days ago, where it has approved its expert expertise report and recommended that the ministry's decision be annulled. They've asked for the stuff to turn into reevaluation.

The ministry is challenging the OSHP, because it has not yet announced that it has formed a commission to turn the subject into revaluation. He hasn't even suspended the decision to issue the tender procedure, which the Law requires.

“The review panel, ruling in accordance with the two complaints filed by groups of economic operators against the announcement of the decision to annul the activity of procurement “Fournisation with personal identification documents and maintenance of electronic systems” with a number of procurement 214-22-3241-111, initiated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MPB) with the date 09.02.2023, has made the decision to cancel the AK decision and the subject returns to re-adprognition. In the e-procubation system, it doesn't believe the procurement procedure was suspended and that from the AK so far O The DS has not received any notice of the steps they took so for your first question you should address contracting authority.They said Periscope from the Procuring Bureau.

Although the ministry has still ignored this obligation, the OSHP has not yet shown it to the Law, but says it can do so in the coming days.

Taking into account that the parties have accepted the decision by February 09, 2023, if the OSHP's decision is ignored, conform Article 105 paragraph 2. 7 at the LPP, the OSHP will take the measures it has prescribed by law to order the side to implement the decision issued”, said further in the O response. Periscop's check.

Despite that, the currently “tender court” has had to apply Article 105, after the deadlines that the ministry has had to implement. The application of that article means making a firm ordinance to implement the decision, otherwise the license is taken to the procurement manager and the contracting authority is pronounced a fine at a value of about 5,000 euros.

Periscop has requested an answer from the MPB regarding whether the OSHP decision will be respected, but the minister has given no answers.

According to documents that are loaded on E-procurement, bid “Augetic GmbH; IN Group shpk” It was praised by the ministry as irresponsible for a number of reasons.

Anxiety of “Muhlbauer ID Services GmbH; Ymako KPS” which has the basis of production even in Serbia has been rejected with the reason that: “you have not submitted to compliance with the requirements in the technical specification tender file point 7.4 The device for the collection centre has not been submitted at all technical offers, and catalogs of which have not been identified were required according to technical specifications at the Tendra File 1. Other reasons have been given.

In the O Panel Report The timeline that Periscop has seen has been adopted by two complaints. This panel consisting of the board of this institution has even approved the findings of its expert that the company “Augetic GmbH; IN Group shpk” had responsible offers, so it only recommended that the ministry seek additional clarifications regarding the staff.

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With the O Board making this decision The KPS, a new situation has been created for the ministry, which is already scheduled to be supplied by the German company with which it negotiated agreements, avoiding competition. But even if the tender of open value is to be returned, the ministry will probably find some other form to cancel this procurement procedure. State institutions have a legal obligation not to make any tender moves until the O Board decides. The DPS for a tender procedure, but the MPB has been called to extreme emergencies, and now I'm linking negotiated contracts with a company that has never competed.

Because the procedures were not in time, in half of September 2021, The MPB had been contracting 12 months of negotiations with the German company “Verdos GmbH” for the tender “Emergency Planning with ID documents and maintenance of the” systems. The value of the contract in which passport production was involved 3929 080 euros. The contract was oversized, and the company had stopped framing, and the ministry operated on very small amounts that remained in stock for emergencies./ P ERISCOPI/