Swedish bureaucrats battle private firms for Sida market

Business July 17, 2006

When Sida put the contract for capacity building of Serbia’s land management authority out for tender, two private firms - BlomInfo and Orgut - won and the Swedish cadastral agency, National Land Survey (NLS) of Sweden, bitterly complained. In the second phase of the project, NLS prevailed; Sida gave the state agency the contract, worth over SEK 25 million for three years, without competitive tender.

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