NS denies evasion Procurement software – Computable

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The Dutch Railways deny the tendering rules have their boot lapped around the specific planning of the Portuguese company Siscog. NS used this software for planning and scheduling trains vanpersoneel twenty-two years. According to the railway company also did not have to be tendered because the Dutch legislation not yet in force would be when the contract was concluded in July 1993. Nu.nl news, however, that the Dutch legislation was already in force in June 1993

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Nu.nl says that NS for 22 years procurement rules around these timesheet software flouted. According to the news gets Siscog (Sistemas Cognitivos) about ten million per year for the software, which the contract limit is exceeded. NS will against Nu.nl not go into that here. D66 demands clarification from Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem on the issue.

A spokesman for NS has the past three weeks, a lot of correspondence with Nu.nl, but the railway company remains the view that as regards this software did not need to be tendered.

Special or standard

Furthermore, government organizations do under certain circumstances not to write a contract. Then it goes into the Public Procurement Law to a negotiated procedure without a call for competition. This means that a client to his incumbent contractor asks you to do an offer for a renewed contract. Both parties then negotiate this offer until an agreement is reached.

It covers situations in which the knowledge that the incumbent contractor in the house is not directly available on the market. A good example is the operating system of the Maeslantkering, which is many years managed by CGI Netherlands (formerly Logica). It is because of risk allowed to negotiate with the regular partner on an extension of the existing work without the need for a public tender to be issued.

This exception could also hold true for the system of Siscog. Because planning and scheduling personnel and equipment at NS complicated, this is devised a complicated algorithm. But Nu.nl points out, the software Siscog is sold on the market as standard; British rail companies also use it. Standard packages should be tendered, according to the news

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