March 29, 2014
Some information published in the Public Procurement Bulletin (e.g., call for bids, tender results) is inaccurate. In cases when the Public Procurement Board (PPB) is informed about the error, for example, by the issuer, a correction notice is published subsequently (e.g., rectification or modification) (regulations related to this are NFM 14/2010 [October 29th], and in NFM 92/2011 [December 30th]). Nevertheless, in some cases, the original, incorrect announcement is republished in full, with the corrected information. It is unclear why two correction approaches are used simultaneously.
Although eliminating errors is necessary and a welcome approach, PPB’s ambiguous practices raise questions about transparency and legal certainty. Uncertainty arises because correction notices, such as rectifications or modifications, published with the original and the correction registry numbers do not provide any information on the registry number of the newly published full version, if any. Thus, even after a thorough search, the corrected full document cannot always be found.
This highlights the issue that publishing the corrected full announcement is most likely not mandatory. In addition, a correction notice is not always published when a document is corrected. As a consequence of the above, there can be no 100% certainty about whether the published information is the correct or incorrect version of an announcement, and whether a corrected full version is available or not when the correction happened. This report describes these problems and procedures implemented to resolve them.
The study in Hungarian with English summary: (PDF)
Suggested citation:
Csizmás, K., Fazekas, M., & Tóth, I. J. (2014). Tű a szénakazalban Az un. „Educatio hiba” és az eset kapcsán felvetődő problémák, valamint ezek megoldása (Needle in a Haystack – The “Educatio Error”: Problems in Connection With It and Their Solutions). CRCB. http://www.crcb.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/kb_adatok_2010_9riport_140331.pdf