Kotor: Due to a typographical error, the sewage tender was cancelled

"The State Commission annulled the public procurement procedure in question due to the 'inconsistency between the public invitation and the tender documentation', which is reflected in an obvious technical error that occurred during typing", the Directorate announced
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Municipality of Kotor, Photo: Ivana Komnenić
Municipality of Kotor, Photo: Ivana Komnenić
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Ažurirano: 26.01.2015. 20:06h

The Commission for the Control of Public Procurement canceled the tender of the Directorate for Arrangement and Construction of Kotor, which related to the construction of a sewage system through the upper part of the Old Town.

The Directorate announced that the reason was a technical error during typing.

"The State Commission annulled the public procurement procedure in question due to 'inconsistency between the public call and the tender documentation', which is reflected in an obvious technical error during typing", the Directorate announced.

It is stated that it is only about one word on page 27 of the tender documentation, where the mandatory conditions that the bidder must fulfill reads "management of the execution of construction and construction-craft works on high-rise buildings", and it should be written on "hydraulic facilities".

As announced, during the last year, the Directorate for the Development and Construction of Kotor conducted 64 public procurement procedures, of which only tender 51/14 for the construction of the sewage system through the upper part of the Old Town was canceled by the decision of the State Commission for the Control of Public Procurement Procedures .

The reason for the control of this tender, it is added, is not the bidder's complaint, but in accordance with Article 144 of the Law on Public Procurement, the procedure whose value is more than 500 thousand euros, was the subject of a regular review by the State Commission for the Control of Public Procurement Procedures.

"It was clear to the bidders that this was an obvious technical error, because of the seven potential bidders who bought the tender documentation, none asked for an explanation because of this illogicality," said the Directorate.

The Directorate said that it is clear that an obvious technical error could not lead to discrimination of bidders or restrictions on market competition, as stated in the decision of the State Commission for Control of Public Procurement Procedures.

"This is all the more so, as both in the public invitation published on the Portal of the Public Procurement Administration and in the invitation which is an integral part of the tender documentation, it is correctly written which licenses the bidder should deliver, while it is only in one place in such extensive tender documentation of 92 pages, a technical error was made in one word," the statement said.

It is also stated that it is evident that the entire public procurement procedure was carried out without clarification in this part of the tender documentation. "Also without complaints from other participants of the public call, we believe that there is no place for this position of the State Commission that the public call and the tender documentation are not harmonized".

"We note once again that if any of the potential bidders had a dilemma as to which license should be submitted, I would have asked for clarification of the tender documentation and this error would have been corrected in time," the statement of the Directorate states.

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