The International Public Tender No. 39A000141/CP/01MIREME, launched in June last year, by the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME), was recently annulled by the Maputo City Administrative Court (TACM). The annulment grants the request of SICPA, a company that had been, since 2018, providing the service of marking petroleum products in the country.
Recall that SICPA requested the annulment of the tender, alleging a lack of transparency in the MIREME’s conduct of the selection process for a new supplier of the fuel marking service. A year later, the TACM granted the request of this Swiss company.
According to the Judgment No. 44/TACM/021, dated June 2, 2021, to which the newspaper “Noticias” had access, the collective of judges of the TACM accepted the allegations of SICPA, particularly on defects such as violation of the principles of legality, transparency and impartiality provided in the Regulation for Contracting Public Works, Supply of Goods and Services to the State.
The court considered that the company’s arguments of violation of the law, incompetence of MIREME and lack of reasoning were understandable.
