Liberec, a city in north Bohemia, will have to pay substantial fines for mistakes it made in tenders for the Nordic World Ski Championship back in 2009. The director of the Czech Antimonopoly Office (UOHS) Petr Rafaj told CTK that the CZK 6.55m (€254,000) is the highest fine of its kind. He says errors were discovered in 70 instances, most of which involved big orders being sliced into smaller orders that could be assigned without a tender. The city’s representation said that it did not agree with UOHS’s findings and that it would turn to the administrative court. UOHS found that Liberec distorted the competitive environment by influencing the selection of bids, and by preventing some suppliers from participating in the tenders, said Rafaj.
