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- How does the Post boast of having won this contract against Fan Courier?
In the press release sent Monday, the Romanian Post says that “under the contract estimated at 27.31 million lei, the company will deliver approximately 4,800,000 items throughout the contract (2,400,000 items per year)”.
“Previously, the RAAPPS provider was also the Romanian Post, which won, in 2017, a contract after an auction in which one of the most important courier companies in Romania participated. This year the procedure was signed. the same two companies, the main local players in the profile market, and the Romanian Post had, once again, the winning bid ”, the Romanian Post statement shows.
According to data from the Electronic Public Procurement System, the company to which the Post Office refers is Fan Courier, the largest private courier company.
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- A contract awarded for the same estimated value, although an open tender was held
The Romanian Post states that “if, in 2017, the award criterion was the lowest price, this year the emphasis was on the best value for money.”
- If, in previous years, the price offered made the difference between Romanian Post and the competing companies, this time the company won the contract obtaining the best score in qualitative and financial evaluation factors. It is the second time that we have won against the largest courier company in the country, which shows that the Romanian Post is increasingly prepared to compete, on equal terms, with any courier service provider “, said Horia Grigorescu, general director of the Romanian Post.
Actually, although the award criterion was the best value for money, the financial component represented 90%, While qualitative component it only represented 10%.
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More, although an open tender was held and there was competition, the contract was awarded on a fixed basis for the initially estimated value: 27,312,000 lei.
The Romanian Post is owned by the Romanian State, through the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure and Communications, in a proportion of 93.52%, and by Fondul Proprietatea, in a proportion of 6.48%.
The company has the largest distribution network nationwide, being the largest employer: more than 24,000 employees, with 5,500 post offices / counters / postal agencies, more than 7.5 million addresses are covered by its own network Postcard.
In August of this year, the Romanian Post fully paid all historical debts with ANAF, for an amount of 135 million lei, managing to lift the embargo on the property, which constituted a guarantee.