The Commission for the Protection of Rights in Public Procurement Procedures accepted the appeal of the Bjelopol company Mikro-Mont and overturned the decision of the Secretariat for Housing, Communal Affairs, Transport and Water of the Municipality of Pljevlja from September 30, on the annulment of the procedure for the public procurement of pellets, which are delivered to citizens at subsidized prices.
The commission sent the case back to the municipality for re-decision and ordered that within 15 days from the date of publication of the decision, it should eliminate the irregularities and inform the commission accordingly.
The municipality of Pljevlja recently canceled the tender for the purchase of pellets, with the explanation that no bidder submitted a valid offer. The estimated value of the public procurement was 647.536 euros.
The pellet procurement procedure is delayed this year, even though the municipality of Pjevlja announced a tender in January, due to a large number of reported complaints from bidders.
This is the fourth 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 has long since begun.
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 judged to be defective.
On October 11, the bidder "Mikro-Mont" filed a complaint with the Commission for the Protection of Rights in Public Procurement Procedures against the said decision due to incompletely and improperly established factual situation, violation of procedural rules and incorrect application of substantive law.
The commission accepted the allegations of the Bjelopol company.
Vice President of the Municipality of Pljevlja Darko Gazdić he recently said that the local parliament, after the Commission for the Control of Public Procurement finally put an end to this tender, should make a decision to refund the citizens a certain amount of money they spent for the purchase of pellets.
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.
On August 13, the municipality chose the company Mikro-Mont from Bijelo Polje, after the Commission for the Control of the Public Procurement Procedure twice annulled its earlier decision, which evaluated the offer of the company Jasen as the most favorable.
The joint offer of "Javor Internacional" doo Pljevlja and Nikola" doo Berane was ranked second, the offer of Eurozox" doo Danilovgrad was ranked third, while the offer of the bidder, Jasen" was rejected as incorrect.
Jasen" on August 23, through attorney 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 procedural rules and incorrect application of substantive law.
In the appeal, Jasen essentially 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, thereby 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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