Swedish bureaucrats battle private firms for Sida market

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.