Herrljunga Municipality faces new procurement fine
For the second time, Herrljunga Municipality is facing a procurement fine for unlawfully awarding a contract. But as the municipality has reported its own infringement to the Swedish Competition Authority, the requested fine will be set at a lower amount than would otherwise be the case.
The infringement in question concerns the purchase of staffing services for telephony/ telephone exchange personnel on three occasions in 2015. The agreements constitute the same type of direct illegal awards. The combined contract value is around SEK 1.2 million, which is over the permitted limit for direct awards which was SEK 505,800. These contracts should have been tendered by using a contract notice.
It was the municipality itself that reported the unlawful direct award to Swedish Competition Authority. In previous cases, the Swedish Competition Authority has reduced the fine amount after such as admission, which is also the case this time.
“It is encouraging when those who discover mistakes in their own organisations take the initiative to inform the Swedish Competition Authority about them“, says the Swedish Competition Authority’s Director General Dan Sjöblom.
The Swedish Competition Authority is now filing an application at the Administrative Court in Jönköping to impose a SEK 50,000 procurement fine. This is the 100th time an application has been filed at an administrative court since the remedies was introduced five years ago.
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Last updated: 2021-05-07
Press release19 january 2016