The municipality of Pljevlja canceled the tender for the procurement of pellets, which are delivered to citizens at subsidized prices, because, as stated in the explanation, no bidder submitted a valid offer.
The estimated value of the public procurement was 647.536 euros.
Oština decided to take this step after one of the bidders, the company "Eurozox" from Danilovgrad, informed the local administration that it was withdrawing from the offer, while the other three were assessed as defective.
Unsatisfied bidders can lodge a complaint with the Commission for the Protection of Public Procurement Procedures within ten days.
Vice President of the Municipality Darko Gazdić he said that the local parliament, after the Public Procurement Control Commission finally puts an end to the tender, should make a decision to refund the citizens a certain amount of money they spent on buying pellets.
"We have lists from before, and new users can register by phone and receive a part of the money refunded with the attached fiscal invoice," said Gazdić.
The process of purchasing pellets this year is delayed even though the municipality of Pljevlja announced a tender in January, due to the large number of reported complaints from bidders.
Gazdić said that four bidders applied for the tender for the first time this year, while there was only one in the previous ones.
Recently, the Public Procurement Control Commission accepted the appeal of the Pljevlja company "Jasen" and again canceled the decision of the Municipality of Pljevlja from August 13 on the selection of the most favorable offer for the purchase of pellets.
The Commission then ordered the Secretariat for Housing and Communal Affairs, Traffic and Water to eliminate the irregularities within 15 days. This is the third time that the Commission has canceled the decision on the selection of the most favorable offer, which is why the delivery of pellets to citizens is delayed, even though the beginning of the heating season is approaching.
On August 13, the municipality chose the company "Mikro-Mont" from Bijelo Polje, after twice the Commission for the control of the public procurement procedure annulled its earlier decision, which evaluated the offer of the company "Jasen" as the most favorable.
The joint offer of "Javor International" Pljevlja and "Nikola" Berana was ranked second, the offer of Eurozox" Danilovgrad ranked third, while the offer of the bidder "Jasen" was rejected as incorrect.
"Jasen" on August 23 through a lawyer's proxy Nebojša Vojinović filed a complaint with the Commission for the Protection of Rights in Public Procurement Procedures due to incompletely and improperly established factual situation, violation of procedure rules and incorrect application of substantive law.
In the appeal, "Jasen" points out that the challenged decision is illegal, because the client, in the process of executing the decision of the Commission for the Protection of Rights of May 9, rejected his offer as incorrect, thus preventing him from participating equally in the tender, even though his offer for 70.000 euros more favorable than the offer of the bidder "Mikro-mont".
In the renewed procedure, the Municipality determined that the company "Mikro-Mont" submitted an incorrect offer.
The municipality pays half of the contracted amount, and the citizens pay the other half when picking up the pellets.
Citizens are entitled to two tons of pellets at subsidized prices.
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