New beacon of the Guardia di Finanza on public healthcare procurement in Sardinia.

This morning the Fiamme Gialle, coordinated by the Sassari Prosecutor's Office , carried out 5 precautionary measures against as many people , accused in complicity of the crime of "disturbing the freedom of the procedure for choosing the contractor" , with reference to a public tender procedure for the award of the supply of biomedical equipment, with a starting bid amount of over 2 million euros , announced in 2020 by the University Hospital of Sassari and awarded the following year.

«In particular - explains a note from the GdF -, the soldiers of the Economic-Financial Police Unit carried out the measure of house arrest against the President of the Judging Commission, former medical director, and the administrator of a company in Cagliari . The latter - add the investigators - together with another entrepreneur, both directors of the two companies that won almost all of the tender lots , were banned from contracting with the public administration. At the same time, the measure of suspension of professional practice was implemented against the doctor in charge of the structure concerned and a clinical engineer who participated in the public tender procedure".

According to the prosecution's hypothesis, «conducts of disruption of the administrative procedure aimed at establishing the content of the tender documents in order to influence the methods of choice of the contractor by the public administration through collusion and other fraudulent means aimed at establishing the technical requirements of the lots to be awarded ".

(Unioneonline)