‘Ordina used fraudulent by tendering of ict projects in government’

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Ordina would be in a period of five years fraud have committed to ict projects of the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice and the municipality of Rotterdam in the prizes. The ict service provider was, among other secret documents the signals are sent from an official.

The evasion of the procurement rules would be between 2005 and 2010 have taken place. The allegations come from television programme Zembla, which is a usb stick with thousands of e-mails and business plans of Ordina got skewed of a whistleblower. The documents state, among other things, that Ordina in 2009 of an official draft documents received relating to a software project that tens of millions of euros were involved. This would Ordina benefit from the tender.

Ordina recognises that the messages are authentic, but denies the public procurement rules to have evaded. The company says law firm Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in the arm to have taken note, that during the research more than half a million documents and files of Ordina has to be searched and in addition persons have been interviewed. “The Board of Directors of Ordina, on the basis of the results of the research of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek concluded that it is not determined that there has been irregularities in this procurement.”

Experts conclude, however, that there is indeed in violation of the rules has occurred, and speak of ‘deception of the purest water’. In 2006, the municipality of Rotterdam, the tendering procedure also bypassed by projects to distribute Ordina, Logica CMG and Capgemini. Furthermore, it would Ordina in 2009, a consultancy firm have turned on to a tender for an ict-project in the IND review, while the desk is right by the IND in the arm was taken to be impartial and to advise.

The municipality of Rotterdam and the Court of that city, an internal investigation was started into the affairs and also the Ministry of Security and Justice has begun an internal integriteitsonderzoek. Earlier this week came Ordina discredited as a reserve officer of the Royal Army in 2009 during his stay in Uruzgan confidential information to the ict-supplier allowed to drain.

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