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This can be seen from the tender documentation in which IDDEEA requires the supplier to deliver equipment and repromaterials to produce passports, although this agency under the IDDEEA Act is not entitled to do so. These are confirmed in the media statements by IDDEEA Director Arif Nanic and Minister of Civil Affairs in the Council of Ministers Adil Osmanovic. We are striving for IDDEEA to become a state printer for identification documents. In the next three or four years, the Law on IDDEEA should be amended, thus establishing a legal framework for this, Nanic told Glas Srpske on October 23, 2017. years. According to the tender documentation, the obligation of the selected supplier was to deliver and install the complete technology with the equipment for creating and personalizing passports to the premises of the contracting authority, and to train IDDEEA officers to operate on that equipment and to produce passports. The obligation of the supplier was to install the entire system at that location by March 21, including equipment for electronic passport production, but this has never been done. Srna learns that in September 2017, IDDEEA leased business premises in the Medical Electronics building in Banja Luka, 220 square meters, at the site of the former CIPS site in that building. This space in Medical Electronics that does not meet the minimum requirements for making passports and for which IDDEEA pays 4,000 KM per month, is still empty. It is incomprehensible that IDDEEA has announced a tender in which it asks the supplier to deliver the equipment and reprocessing material in order to produce the IDDEEA passports, although both Nanic and Osmanovic stated that IDDEEA has no legal basis for making passports. The Srna interlocutor, who is close to the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the Council of Ministers, says that it is in that way that the job is obtained by Milbauer and that the budget is damaged by more than one million marks. The budget is additionally damaged and unnecessarily leased space in Medical Electronics. The question arises as to why the tender was announced, when everything remained the same, and why conditions were not met. The key question is whether Milwaukee knew all this in advance, and whether the tender was announced so that other suppliers would be discouraged from submitting bids, he says. Interlocutor Srna points out that it is obvious that the tender was a mask for the continuation of the previous mode of work. The passport, he says, remained exactly the same, and is still being made in the premises of Milbauer. Goran Rakic, Head of Cabinet of IDDEEA Director Arifa Nanic, did not directly answer any of the questions asked by Srne. Rakic ??claims that the procedure was conducted in accordance with the Law on Public Procurement of BiH, although it is seen from the tender request and the non-compliance with the contractual provisions that this is not true. Legal jurisdiction is prescribed by the Law on IDDEEA which regulates that the Agency carries out procurement, storage, personalization, quality control and transport of identification documents for the needs of competent authorities, which implies the process of personalization and technical processing and travel documents, Rakic said in a letter from Srna. He claims that IDDEEA, in accordance with the law, transparently carries out public procurement procedures for goods, services and works. According to him, IDEEA uses multiple business premises on the territory of BiH based on the lease agreement, and that all the contracts have been concluded in accordance with the envisaged procedures. All suppliers of the Agency as a contracting authority are obliged to fulfill the obligations from the concluded contracts, and in the event that the necessary measures are not taken the same. Having in mind the fact that appropriate administrative and judicial procedures are conducted before the competent judicial and administrative bodies, until the termination of these procedures we are not able to provide you with other requested information, the letter says. Milbauer did not answer the questions asked even after 18 days. Marketing manager of Milbauer Vedran Francuz responded by saying that he is on holiday until May 14th. Problems in purchasing passports lasted more than two years. After five failed tenders, IDDEEA concluded a framework agreement for a period of four years with the company Milbauer on March 12th as the most successful tenderer in the process of public procurement of passports. |
