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COMPETITION HRK 4.5 million deal: The company Krstičević worked for beat the former Škorina company King ICT got a job for the Central State Office for Digital Society Development even though their offer was more expensive than Omega Software By: Dora KoreticPosted: September 22, 2020 10:48 am Damir Krstičević and Miroslav Škoro Damir Krstičević and Miroslav Škoro Cropix Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail Although the company Omega Software submitted a million and one hundred thousand kuna cheaper offer in a public tender, the job of developing a system for collecting official documents of the Republic of Croatia, for which the tender was announced by the Central State Office for Digital Society, won King ICT. This public procurement would probably have gone under the radar if only two companies had not applied for the job worth 4.5 million kuna with VAT, namely companies associated with political competitors Damir Krstičević and Miroslav Škor . Namely, Krstičević was connected with King ICT until 2015, when he activated his parliamentary mandate and ceased to be a member of the supervisory board of King ICT, while Škoro until recently was a co-owner of Omega Software, a company in which he had five percent co-ownership. but from which, as he himself asserted, he came out because of media pressure. Analysis As can be seen from the documentation published in the Official Gazette, the Central State Office for the Development of the Digital Society asked for a company to develop a software solution for automatic management and collection of official documents and their publication on the portal. implementation, installation, as well as employee education. image Miroslav Škoro Goran Mehkek / CROPIX The tender, which was announced in January this year, received two bids, King ICT and Omega Software, with the first company offering to develop the system practically for the price of the estimated value of the purchase - more precisely, their bid was 3.5 million HRK without VAT, or 4.4 million with value added tax, while Omega Software offered to do the work for 2.6 million HRK without VAT, or a total of 3.3 million HRK. RELATED NEWS Miroslav Škoro IRREGULARITIES Election Commission seeks bills: Skorina's money for advertising was spent in cafes and pizzerias WE DISCOVER How exactly will he cooperate with the Minister: Here is what Krstičević is planning as an advisor to the Prime Minister The public opening of bids took place in February, a month after the tender was announced, but it will take four months for the bids to be analyzed. The reasons why the job went to the more expensive bidder are evident from the June 2 bid review and evaluation minutes. Rejection Namely, the client, among other things, asked the bidder to prove that in the history of business he performed the service of cataloging materials according to the UNIMARC standard, ie an equivalent standard, and it seems that this is the reason why Omega Software's offer was rejected. In order to prove that they had performed such a service, the company stated that it had upgraded the Centirix and Pismohrana case management system for the Medicines Agency (HALMED), but that it was not clear to the Central Office that Omega had indeed done the job. cataloging, they requested several statements from this company, as well as from the Agency itself. After some correspondence, it turned out that the skepticism of the Central Office was justified: HALMED finally clarified that the cataloging of materials at work that was mentioned as a reference in the tender was actually made by Agency employees, not Omega Software employees, after which the Office concluded that the offer was not valid.