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The municipality of Lidköping offers its 4,625 employees a SEK 500 gift card that they can use in about 60 stores, NLT says.
Stores where the gift card is applied are connected to the Commerce Council’s Shopping Lidköping concept, the newspaper writes.
The Swedish Competition Authority is now verifying whether the gifts may be illegal and violate the Public Procurement Law, due to their scope.
According to the law, competitive public procurement must be carried out when the municipality makes purchases that exceed SEK 615,000. Here, the total will be just over two million crowns, according to NLT, which also states that the Council of Commerce charges the municipality 13 crowns per card as an administrative fee, a sum that reaches 60,000 crowns.
“It does not benefit any individual entrepreneur”
– We have not been aware of the review by the Swedish Competition Authority, so we have not reasoned on the matter in relation to it. However, we have previously landed on the assessment that the purchased service is the administrative part, says development and communications manager Elin Liljebäck Nilsson to the newspaper and adds:
– It is not the case that we benefit any individual entrepreneur in this, but it is up to the staff to optionally buy in the stores that are in Lidköping.
