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Procurement board fines BKK, T-systems HUF 150 mln for e-ticket system
In the board's view, both companies were in breach of the public procurement act when BKK contracted T-Systems to develop a new system after the failings of the first one became public, even though the service provider left serious errors in the first version.
There was considerable outrage last summer when T-Systems pressed criminal charges against the young man who found the software fault, although the company later offered to fix this, as well as other bugs subsequently found, at its own cost.
This summer, BKK accepted an offer from T-Systems for fixing the e-ticket system, but the KDB found this to be irregular, as BKK should have opened a new public procurement procedure for either fixing the old system or developing a new one.
There was considerable outrage last summer when T-Systems pressed criminal charges against the young man who found the software fault, although the company later offered to fix this, as well as other bugs subsequently found, at its own cost.
This summer, BKK accepted an offer from T-Systems for fixing the e-ticket system, but the KDB found this to be irregular, as BKK should have opened a new public procurement procedure for either fixing the old system or developing a new one.
