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Kalinak: Int'l Tender Challenged by Garage-based Company with 2 Staff
Sunday 17 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 17 (TASR) - It's a 'garage-based company' with two employees that is challenging the fair and transparent international tender competition by the Interior Ministry half a year after the tender was completed, Interior Minister Robert Kalinak told a press conference on Sunday regarding VYKO – a Bratislava-based company that he claims is linked to Opposition KDH party.
KDH vice-chairman Daniel Lipsic said at a news conference on Thursday that several uncertainties concerning the ministry's €26-million tender for cleaning, construction-assembly and other works are arousing suspicion that the competition is overpriced and "ready-made" for one specific company.
According to Kalinak, VYKO used to supply cleaning services to the ministry during the former Cabinet's term for a price that was nearly 20 percent higher than the services provided by a company (Bratislava-based ISS Facility Services) that has won the latest tender.
"The well-prepared initiative aimed at discrediting the current top ranks of the Interior Ministry was managed and misused in the media by KDH MP Daniel Lipsic," said Kalinak.
Kalinak noted that the ministry under the former (KDH) management signed a deal with VYKO in June 2005, with the company supplying cleaning services to the Police Corps Presidium. The company has two employees, just like back in 2005, said Kalinak.
According to Kalinak, the price for cleaning works provided by VYKO was at 27 eurocents per square metre, compared to the winning bid in the new tender, which is 22 eurocents. "The Interior Ministry under the present management has managed to reach a price that's nearly 20 percent lower than the one that the ministry run by KDH managed to get five years ago," said Kalinak.
VYKO filed an appeal with the Public Procurements Office (UVO) in December, in which it protests against the way the tender was carried out. VYKO itself didn't submit a bid in the tender.
Kalinak said that five applicants took part in the tender, with ISS Facility Service submitting the cheapest offer.
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