ÚOHS initiated administrative proceedings concerning the digitization of the building permit process

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09.11.2023 19:05

Brno - The Office for the Protection of Competition (ÚOHS) has initiated administrative proceedings regarding the contract for the supply of part of the systems for the digitization of building proceedings. From the announcement of the initiation of administrative proceedings, which ČTK has at its disposal, it follows that the office started examining the contract awarded in the negotiated procedure without publication at the request of VITA software. In the announcement, the antimonopoly office prohibits the fulfillment of the contract from November 3, which the Ministry for Regional Development concluded with the company InQool. This contract was concluded for the implementation project, development, and implementation of information systems for the digitization of building proceedings. The Datarun platform brought attention to the proceedings today.

The contract available in the public contract registry was concluded for 31 million crowns with a company that won in a previously canceled public procurement for securing the digitization of building proceedings, according to Datarun.

The ministry canceled the tender for the information system for the digitization of building proceedings (DSŘ) from 2021, which had an estimated implementation cost of 1.9 billion crowns, and redistributed mentioned billion among the regions. Subsequently, it created a new competition for the system and at the beginning of June chose a new supplier, who is expected to carry out the digitization for approximately 1.2 billion crowns less than the offer from 2021.

However, the ministry currently cannot conclude a contract with the new supplier due to objections from System Servis. They filed a complaint with the ÚOHS, which halted the proceedings.

"Part of the supply of systems for the digitization of building proceedings was then suddenly awarded by the ministry to a company selected precisely within this problematic public contract in the negotiated procedure without publication. This is despite the fact that the public competition was canceled due to illegal procurement conditions by the ÚOHS's first-instance decision. The MMR has filed a complaint against this decision, and the matter is currently being reviewed by the chairman of the ÚOHS in the second-instance proceedings," stated Datarun.

Datarun is a think-tank platform founded by journalists Vladimír Piskáček and Michal Půr. It is a project through which, according to the founders, experts can express their opinions on various areas of social life, in the form of newsletters, podcasts, and analyses.

According to MMR, blocking should not delay the launch of the digitization of building proceedings, planned for July 1 of next year. Its launch has already been delayed twice, and originally the system was supposed to be operational this summer.

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