Competition office imposes record fine for tender errors on public authority

The country’s competition watchdog has imposed a record fine on the north Bohemian city of Liberec for flaws in a public tenders. The Office for the Protection of Economic Competition fined the city 3.0 million crowns, the highest fine ever for a tender infraction by a public authority, after severe flaws were found in an around billion crown tender for the collection and removal of rubbish. It said two companies were unjustifiably eliminated from the tender although one offered to do the job for a third of the price of the eventual winner. The fine can be appealed.