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Public-benefit association Acta non Verba in conjunction with the Anticorruption Endowment (NFPK) has mapped the purchasing prices of computers and software in the realm of state administration—and discerned a massive waste of public money.

Acta non Verba asked several state and public administration institutions how much they spent for the acquisition of personal computers, notebooks, servers and related software in 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively. Click on U dvanácti institucí náklady porovnala... (in Czech only).

Third place went to the Office of the Government Representation in Property Affairs (ÚZSVM), which averaged 70,259 CZK per annum. Over the past three years ÚZSVM has spent almost 360 million CZK, especially for software called Central Register of Administrative Buildings (CRAB). The Project CRAB’s total final costs amounted to 255 million CZK, according to ÚZSVM. The costs of the CRAB information system proper were 132 million CZK. It is quite a lot, because in actual fact the system comprises only of a special graphic layer above the RUIAN, software which ÚZSVM had already operated with. Moreover, the costs of the CRAB information system are far from transparent. It is not instantly obvious how the price was set or how the contractor, IBM, was selected. Other ÚZSVM spending for data processing technologies and software is also unduly exorbitant.

Second place: The Prague City Hall annually spends sums in excess of 300 million CZK. One computer user costs the City Hall 166,826 CZK a year. If the City Fathers emulated other agencies in buying for the average price of 15,286 CZK per user, they would save 278 million CZK every year.

And the winner is… The Ministry for Regional Development spends a record 215,000 CZK per one of less than 600 employees it has, year in year out.

Vojtěch Razima, Director of Acta non Verba, comments on the case: “If somebody drives an Octavia 1.9 TDI with fuel consumption of 20 litres of diesel per 100 km, he must be a good driver by all means. But if someone clocks 280 litres per 100 km, there is no other explanation but that he steals diesel. That’s why we sued all the three institutions in the graph.”

Similarly to the previous projects, Papers are a Scare, which we also supported; the outcomes are an eye opener. “Regrettably, it shows once again that some state authorities, or rather their employees, have funny interpretations of the management of state funds. They probably live by the tenet, ‘When it’s free, you feast’ (best case scenario), or ‘What’s at home counts’ (worst case option),” adds Petr Soukenka, Director of the Anticorruption Endowment.

Vojtěch Razima, Director, Acta Non Verba, o.p.s., Cellphone: 602 547 235, e-mail: vojtech.razima@kverulant.org

Petr Soukenka, Director, NFPK, Cellphone:: 734 315 352, e-mail: petr.soukenka@nfpk.cz