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Transparency Serbia (TS) announced today that official data on the cost of construction and equipping of hospitals in Batajnica and Krusevac indicate that the total cost of construction is around 60 million euros.
Photo: Beta / Government of Serbia / Slobodan MiljevićReferring to the data released by the Ministry of Health more than a month ago, TS draws attention to the fact that the agreed price to equip the two kovid hospitals was 2 billion and 56 million dinars.
They also point out that on July 30 of this year, the “Belgrade” Military Construction Institution was in charge of preparing the project documentation and carrying out turnkey works in Batajnica for 3,328,500,000 dinars, and that the same contracting of works in Krusevac it was agreed a day later. for 1,660,194,000 dinars.
So, a price of around 5 billion dinars has been agreed for the construction, and in total (with equipment), those 7 billion dinars are equal to around 60 million euros.
“Not only is it unknown what was spent on, if the difference of 40 million euros was actually spent, but it is not possible to verify in any document exactly what the 60 million euros was spent on, since the only document available is the information on the winners and price, as well as the reasons why other information was not published ”, they say in TS.
They recall that in the case of the equipment of the Kovid hospitals, the procedure was carried out without the application of the Public Procurement Law, with the explanation “that its application would force the Republic of Serbia to disclose data whose disclosure is contrary to the essential interests of their security, based on the decision of the Government. “
Likewise, the Supreme Courts point out that, instead of ensuring safety, the Ministry of Health referred to the reasons for the urgency, which, according to that body, was unquestionable.
“The urgency, however, was by no means a valid reason to completely exclude transparency during the procedure, nor to limit competition only to those companies that are directly invited to submit offers,” concluded the TS.
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