The city of Kerava has received official reprimands for the way in which the pole vaults were procured for the schools.
Keravan the pole jumper procurement should have been tendered.
The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (KKV) issued a notice to the city of Kerava on Thursday for non-compliance with the Procurement Act.
The purchases of pole vaults related to the city's break exercise project formed one natural procurement entity that should have been put out to tender.
The city of Kerava justified the direct procurement by saying that the procurement of the welfare service package was about an online study service, which is subject to the higher bidding limit according to Appendix E of the Procurement Act.
According to the city, the procurements were separate and independent entities, which do not form one natural procurement entity.
KKV considers that the welfare service package was a standard service procurement, to which the 60,000 euro bidding limit of the Procurement Act applies. In addition, KKV estimates that the purchase of the wellness service package and the gym sticks and storage bags formed one procurement entity.
“The procurements were related to the same recess exercise project and they were made on the same day, by the same office holder, with consecutive procurement decisions,” notes KKV.
Keravan director of education and training Tiina Larsson decided in mid-June to order a local entrepreneur Matti Vestmanin 4,175 pole vaulting poles at a price of 6.80 euros each from Kyykkyliike oy.
The total price of the acquisition was 28,390 euros. Wooden brush handles, which are often used in pole dancing, can also be purchased individually at a hardware store for less than two euros per piece.
In addition to this, on the same day, June 15, Larsson decided to buy 167 storage bags for sticks from the same company. One “design” bag designed for sticks cost 120 euros, so their total price was 20,040 euros. The stick storage bags are sewn on the upper floor of Vestman's Tempaus-Areena.
Sports equipment the acquisition cost Kerava a total of 48,430 euros.
Larsson also signed a three-year service contract for 59,952 euros, where the schools could use video guidance for pole dancing. The company that delivered the exercise program, Liikuntapalvelu Keppi & Porkkana oy, has Vestman behind it.
The total value of the whole exceeds the national threshold of the Procurement Act, which is 60,000 euros.
When considered separately, however, the purchase values of the goods and the service contract fall just below the tendering threshold.
KKV had already started investigating the acquisition in September. Later, the councilors from Kerava made a request for action on the procurement to the agency.
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