Published April 9, 2023 at 12.00
Domestic. The Swedish Competition Authority is taking Stockholm County's healthcare area to court and demanding that the healthcare area must pay SEK 770,000 in procurement damages for having carried out an illegal so-called direct procurement.
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Stockholm County's healthcare district chose itself which suppliers would have the opportunity to collect the 9.9 million kroner that was at stake, without prior advertising. According to the healthcare sector, the suppliers had “exclusive rights”.
However, the Swedish Competition Authority does not consider that the exception for exclusive rights in the procurement legislation is applicable.
– The main rule is that procurements must be put out to competition so that several suppliers on the market get opportunity to submit tenders, says the Swedish Competition Authority's director general Rikard Jermsten.
The Swedish Competition Authority is now turning to the Administrative Court in Stockholm and demanding that Stockholm County's healthcare district must pay SEK 770,000 in procurement damages for having carried out an unauthorized direct procurement.
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