Procurement fines imposed on the Police

The Police Authority signed an agreement with a provider of police services, transport of deceased persons in 2015. The agreement was signed without opening up the process to competition through advertising so that more providers could offer tenders. 

The contract value of the illegal direct award of contract is estimated at nearly SEK 5 million, and the Swedish Competition Authority now requests that the Police Authority should be ordered to pay SEK 400,000 in procurement fines.

“If procurements are not subject to competition through advertising, competing suppliers have no chance to show what they can offer and at what cost. This means that the client does not know if it is the best agreement that is being concluded,” says the Swedish Competition Authority's Director-General Dan Sjöblom in a statement.

The Swedish Competition Authority is now turning to the Administrative Court in Stockholm with the requirement that the fines should be imposed.

Read the application, dnr 202/2016 (in Swedish)