ASK requests software maintenance

The Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) has announced a tender for the maintenance and improvement of the website and data exchange system, worth around 12.400 euros without value added tax (VAT).

According to the documentation published on the website of the Montenegrin electronic public procurement (CEJN), in the coming period, ASK needs the services of programming package software (software), programming, software support services and software maintenance and repair services.

ASK has a software system for data exchange with ten other state institutions and a public website, i.e. a portal, and intends to introduce new modules and upgrade, redesign and add new functionalities to the website.

The tender requested, among other things, the analysis, design and development of modules for connection with other institutions with which ASK signs a cooperation agreement, as well as the development of new modules that must be able to support data exchanges via text files, csv files, if necessary. .

Since 2015, ASK has signed a contract with the company "Prozone" for the maintenance of application software.

The non-governmental organization MANS previously announced that, based on a citizen's report, they learned that the ASK had passed the database of public officials and persons connected to them to the company from Novi Sad with which it has a contract, without the consent of the Agency for the Protection of Personal Data (AZLP). .

At the end of last year, AZLP determined that the personal data of public officials were available to Prozone without their consent. AZLP then made a decision prohibiting ASK from presenting personal data from the information system to that company.

ASK said that Prozone had access to the personal data of officials due to the fulfillment of contractual obligations, the establishment and maintenance of software that is their work of authorship, but also clarified that the IT company is obliged to, during the validity of the contract, as well as within 10 years after its expiration or termination, do not disclose any official or confidential information.

They said that at the time of signing the contract, AZLP's consent was not required for data export.

The Prozone company was engaged in 2015 through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), when representatives of the Ministry of Justice, through bilateral cooperation with the Serbian Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, agreed to download a unique software code, which the Agency in Serbia was already using.