It is not clear for now how much the state should pay to a winner of the tender.
Estimates differ greatly, up to Kc70bn, HN says. "The consulting firm A.T. Kearney has been picked. We are expected Czech ministry to create over 1000 new jobs for convicts ...
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Italian Alenia offers transport planes for Czech L-159 fighters ... to submit the draft documents to the government by August 9," ministry's spokeswoman Zuzana Chocholova told HN. A.T. Kearney worked out an analysis for the Finance Ministry some time ago recommending to call one tender for all the environmental orders. The government approved this solution a month ago, however, it immediately met with criticism warning of potential risk of corruption, the paper said. Transparency International - Czech Republic (TIC) has calculated that concentration of all orders into one tender will result in higher costs eventually, HN writes. "A commission set up by the government will assess the benefits of the proposal," Chocholova says. The Finance Ministry reckons with Kc114.5bn to be paid for all environmental damage. The state pledged to remove old environmental damage in the early 1990s during the privatisation of mainly chemical enterprises and mines promising their new owners to provide some money for land and water reclamation, HN says. "We estimate the net reclamation costs at between Kc40bn and Kc50bn," spokesman for the Environment Ministry Jakub Kaspar says. The state will supervise the giant order, and the Finance Ministry will be responsible for it. The Environment Ministry, however, also seeks strong powers, according to the paper. Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek admits that there is a risk of corruption when such a big order is at stake, the paper says. Nevertheless he expects even the biggest European players to bid in the tender. That will make the tender more transparent and the renowned companies are a better guarantee of the correctness of the tender, according to Kalousek. Some speculations emerged that the tender had been prepared to fit the Czech power utility CEZ, HN writes. "It is nonsense. We are not going to take part in the tender, not even as a subcontractor of the winner," HN cites CEZ spokesman Ladislav Kriz as saying. Danish company Mario Pedersen of the group Veolia has already expressed a preliminary interest in the tender, HN says.
(Ceske Noviny)
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