The Romanian Post received four offers during the negotiation procedure for the procurement of the technology needed to scan barcodes on bills and energy cards in order to distribute aid to the vulnerable for 1,400 lei, a contract with an estimated value of more than 21.7 million lei.

From the data analyzed by HotNews.ro, Posta received 4 offers from the main local mobile operators, respectively:

• 1. SC Orange Romania SA
• 2. SC IT Genetics SRL with subcontractor RCS&RDS SA
• 3. SC Vodafone Romania SA
• 4. SC Telekom Romania Mobile Telecommunication SA

“The winner will be announced with the publication of the award announcement, after signing the contract with the business entity announced as the winner.” This was stated by representatives of the Romanian Post Office for HotNews.ro.

A contract worth millions of euros, concluded in a few days without a tender

HotNews.ro reported on this in a previous article Post office of Romania urgently needed technology needed to scan barcodes on bills and energy cards to distribute 1,400 lei in aid to the vulnerable, so it launched a negotiated purchase of thousands of PDAs, portable printers and mobile devices. data, the contract with an estimated value of more than 21.7 million lei (without VAT).

In the technical passport of the procedure it is stated that the procedure for awarding the contract is a procedure “conducting negotiations without prior invitation to competitive bidding“.

The company refers to Art. 117, item 1, letter d) from Law 99/2016:

• as a strictly necessary measure when the periods of application of open tenders, restricted tenders, competitive negotiations, competitive dialogue or simplified procedure procedures cannot be observed for reasons of extreme urgency determined by unforeseen events and which are in no way related to the action or inaction of the sub- object

In the procedure specifications it is noted that “the number of beneficiaries of this program is estimated at more than 2 million households, and the time for delivery of energy cards no more than 20 calendar days“.

• “To support the distribution and collection efforts of invoices, the Post Office provides the entire logistics infrastructure and more than 10,000 factors, agents and postal couriers.
• The technology for collecting compensated bills involves scanning the barcode on the invoice, scanning the barcode on the energy card, as well as the reconciliation of payments in a centralized database using a special application.
• Poșta Română equips the staff involved in this project with the devices needed to scan and transmit the data needed to pay the bills for all the above beneficiaries.
• In this context, at the company level, 7,000 devices equipped with Android and barcode scanning capabilities, an MDM application for remote device management, 7,000 portable printers and mobile data for 7,000 devices need to be purchased, distributed to company personnel and provided with training on the use of the devices and the application.
• This project requires an additional 1,600 portable printers to utilize the company’s existing CAT S42H+ devices.”, it is shown in the specifications.

Ministry of European Investments and Projects (MIPE) made a guide on friday with basic information about energy cards.

This year, MIPE will provide 700 lei of electricity bill support to vulnerable Romanians from European funds twice a year.

Aid collection cards will be issued and distributed by Poșta Românăand the lists of beneficiaries will be drawn up by the Ministry of Labor and Social Solidarity.