State auditors confirmed the anti-corruption parliamentary commission to establish laws in the process of procuring the Board of Indirect Taxation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a way that the amount of a tenth of a million marks is allocated to this institution.
Hrvoje Светковив, General Auditor of the Audit Office of BiH institutions, of the BiH Parliamentary Parliamentary Corpse Committee, said that the Indirect Taxation (UIH) was remitted to many more funds For the purchase of a new building, than is permitted by law.
Branislav Borenović, Chairman of the Commission, examining the auditor that the public procurement of the new UIO building in Banja Luka has increased in this period from 37.9 million to 103.4 million marks, writes Detektor.ba.
Borenović explained that a public call for procurement has been announced five times, which has consisted of the same tender documentation each time, according to which it was necessary to obtain a building of 13,000 square meters of office space. All five times the public call is annulled due to inappropriate bids that arrived, or due to lack of funds.
The key problem with the bids they arrived, Borenović, was the fact that the public call is provided only purchases of the already finished building, while the offer that arrived predicted the sale of land and the construction of a new building.
When asked by the company offered by the building for the construction of the building and who prepared such a tender documentation, the company has explained that the auditor’s focus is not in concrete data and firms, but to respect the Tender Documentation in BiH.
Borenović reminded that the Audit Office several times gave a variety of public procurement processes and amend the tender documentation, which would enable the Bids for Construction, which the UIO has never adopted these recommendations, nor did they know if they were familiar ever discussed them.
It was pointed out that during 2023. The Council of Ministers made the decision increased by 31.5 million from the initial amount, although the ITA requested an increase of five million.
“It is an unusual way to approve funds. According to regulations, the budget user is required to claim and seek funds, but in this situation, the administration did not seek additional funds, and that significant additional funds were approved. .
Borenović explained that these funds were awarded on the basis of an oral order, but his oral order was not the general auditor could not give an answer, explaining that it should reveal the investigations of other institutions.
He added that by approving these funds, the instruction on the way of approval of multi-annual projects, stating that the additional amount for such projects may be only ten percent of the initial amount provided by the documentation.
“It is possible that the amount of ten percent in the conditions that ruled on the market was inappropriate, but I believe that the Council of Ministers should have been reacted, to increase these percentages, if it was already engaged in the increase,” the company concluded.
A year later, Borenović added, the Council of Ministers increased again for the purchase of the facility for additional 34 million marks, on what the company was learning about that, and will soon publish audit reports for 2024. Year with detailed clarifications.
The Commission emphasized that the increase in the approved amount for procurement occurred after the two public calls in the past four years, where the purchase of the building worth 98.5 million marks is offered, which is much higher than the initial tender documentation.
Jasmin Emrić, a member of the Commission, was a recommendation to state auditors to introduce the Proactive submission of BiH’s information to the Proactive Delivery of BiH when it finds that there was a violation of the law.
To the issues of other members of the Commission on whether the obstructs are responsible for the fact that the process lasts 13 years, the company has explained that it is difficult to respond to obstructions and that there are different objective reasons, but that the guilt can also be in institutions, Like the one who creates tender documents, but also the Council of Ministers.
“There are more institutions that bear part of the guilt, in the sense that everyone should be a little more agile. We have a lot of periods where nothing happens, a year or two of no activities are undertaken, one’s mind awaits, “the company concluded.
