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Siemens' exclusion in Slovakia

In April 2002, it was reported that Germany's Siemens Business Services (SBS) had successfully appealed against its exclusion from a tender to provide IT for the Slovak Treasury. The Slovak Finance Ministry had excluded Siemens from the bidding four times, but is now required to include SBS's bid in its assessment.

The bidding process has been plagued by controversy. A new tender commission was called after the old one came under suspicion of corruption in the summer of 2001. Representatives of Siemens are alleged to have offered the commission chairman SKK 1.5 mln to convince other commission members to choose the German firm. A Siemen's representative has been charged with bribery.

References
UNICORN  [Publication date: 3/5/2005] 'Siemens: No Longer Business as Usual?'
   http://www.againstcorruption.org
[ Date URL accessed: 1/8/2005 ]

[Publication date: 30/8/2004] 'CORRUPTION KEEPS WITH TRADITION'
[ Date URL accessed: 3/2/2006 ]

The Slovak Spectator  [Publication date: 15/7/2002] 'Cabinent Has Fifth Crack at IT Tender'
[ Date URL accessed: 24/9/2002 ]

Czech Republic and Slovakia Business Report  [Publication date: 19/5/2002] 'SIEMENS WINS BID TO RETURN TO TREASURY IT TENDER'
[ Date URL accessed: 29/5/2002 ]

Czech News Agency  [Publication date: 17/4/2002] 'SIEMENS TO RETURN TO TENDER FOR IT FOR SLOVAK TREASURY'
[ Date URL accessed: 16/11/2004 ]

Associated Press AP Worldstream  [Publication date: 10/10/2001] 'Unidentified Slovak Siemens official faces corruption charges'
[ Date URL accessed: 29/5/2002 ]

BBC Monitoring Europe  [Publication date: 14/8/2001] 'Slovak news agency review of the Slovak press for Tuesday'
[ Date URL accessed: 3/2/2006 ]

Associated Press  [Publication date: 10/8/2001] 'Prosecutor orders investigation of allegations Siemens representative tried to bribe official'
[ Date URL accessed: 3/2/2006 ]

Associated Press  [Publication date: 10/8/2001] 'Prosecutor orders investigation of allegations that Siemens representative tried to bribe official'
[ Date URL accessed: 13/9/2004 ]

Czech News Agency  [Publication date: 9/8/2001] 'Slovakia engineering Siemens corruption press'
[ Date URL accessed: 3/2/2006 ]

Czech News Agency (CTK)  [Publication date: 31/7/2001] 'TENDER FOR INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR SLOVAK STATE TREASURY HALTED'
[ Date URL accessed: 3/2/2006 ]

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