Chief Inspector for Public Procurement Hivzo Kajević and his colleagues determined that the Customs Administration conducted the procedure of public procurement of hardware equipment, printed excise stamps and licenses for the lease of software for the system for electronic management of excise stamps in accordance with the Law on Public Procurement.
The President of the Board of Cetinje Štamparija Obod Aleksandar Jovović submitted a request to the Ministry of Finance and the Public Procurement Inspectorate at the beginning of December to start an inspection and take measures against the Customs Administration because they suspect that this tender was "rigged by the company 'Leonhard Kurz Stiftung&Co.KG'".
That was the reason to ask Kajević and the other inspectors what they did about the report.
"We acted according to the initiative of December 9, 12, which requires the inspection of the subject of supervision, the Customs Administration, in connection with the tender documentation for the open procedure for the public procurement of hardware equipment, printed excise stamps and a license for the lease of software for the electronic management system of excise stamps, with the conclusion of a framework agreement. On 2020 December 17, the public procurement inspector conducted an inspection at the subject of supervision related to the allegations of the initiative and determined that the public procurement procedure for the procurement of hardware equipment, printed excise stamps and licenses for the lease of software for the system for the electronic management of excise stamps, with the conclusion of a framework agreement, was carried out in accordance with the Law on Public Procurement", announced the Public Procurement Inspectorate.
Given that the selected bidder is from the EU, the Inspection stated that the Customs Administration "concluded an annex to the contract related to the extension of the term for the lease of the software for the system for electronic management of excise stamps and the granting of a license for the same due to the crisis caused by the corona virus pandemic, as well as the measures that were in force due to it, according to the statements of the subject of supervision and the request of the bidder".
On March 5 this year, the Director of the Customs Administration, Vladan Joković, signed a contract worth 1,22 million euros (for the first year) with the selected company, as well as a framework agreement for a period of two years.
The bidder did not deliver software lease licenses for the electronic stamp management system, so the Customs Administration signed an annex to the contract on October 29, which extended the deadlines from 180 days to 345 days. The Administration announced that everything was done in accordance with the Law on Public Procurement.
The President of the Board of Directors of the Printing House, Obod Jovović, claims in his report to the Ministry of Finance and the Directorate for Inspection Affairs that his suspicions that the million-dollar tender was drawn up in advance for the chosen bidder were confirmed, in a conversation at the end of November, by "Customs representative Branislav Janković".
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