BKK does not accept the $ 300 million penalty
The Public Procurement Arbitration Committee released its condemning decision on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, on the two public procurement of the Budapest Transport Center, he said in a statement BKK.
More than half a year after the closing of the successful public procurement and the conclusion of the contract, the KDB attacked the procedures, which BKK launched in December 2023 to provide continuous, high -quality public transport services, and determined electric buses in mind.
The procurement authority found the announcement in advance, and the participants in the proceedings did not object to the purity of the competition, no remedies were initiated, and the Public Procurement Arbitration Committee considered the negotiated procedure as a competitive.
For many years, the same procedure was found in order
BKK has announced its call for the same subject since 2013, and until the summer of 2024, no objection has been made for the currently debated procedural elements.
2024 July for KBD Has imposed a penalty of 200 million HUF The Budapest Transport Center (BKK) was at the time ending public procurement and at the same time destroyed the entire procedure, making it impossible to get 50 new buses into service in 2025. The BKK challenged the court in lawsuit, received immediate legal protection and did not have to pay the fine. The lawsuit has been in progress ever since.
Now to the same public procurement procedural elements Referring to the CBD, the KBD launched the investment company on the basis of a public interest announcement for public procurement two – half a year earlier.
From negotiations to a well -founded bid
KBD complained about the procedures that the announcement did not include the exact time of the scheduled stops of the buses shipped as part of the service – this the bkk determined after the negotiated section.
The negotiated procedure allows for issues that cannot be defined in a contract or technical description, the contracting authority shall, together with the tenderer, agree during negotiations. In the case of this procedure, the scheduled setting of buses transported as part of the service was such. Tenderers can only request the manufacturers for transport by the end of the negotiated procedural process, based on the technical content recorded as a result of the negotiations, and with this information they can make a well -founded offer.
The impossibility of this practice may result in a further increase in procurement prices and/or a series of ineffective procedures, as contractual and technical conditions are not based on the contracting authority and the tenderer.
The BKK is confident that the court verifies that the BKK has acted correctly during the proceedings and that the company is not forced to change the practice of providing continuous and sufficient quality of public transport service.
