The Tallinn Social and Health Care Department suspended the design procurement announced last week for the Tallinn Hospital project to exclude any possible conflicts of interest in the project team. A new procurement will be announced as soon as possible, city government announced on Monday.
While doing background checks on the project team, it turned out that a member of the team responsible for the procurement had their employment contract and board member authority at their previous employer changed in the registry on March 23 2021 while their contract finished in November 2020. The City s Internal Auditor s Office identified a potential risk of the conflict of interest with a routine background check of project team staff. Although there is no reason to believe that any potential bidder would have gained a competitive advantage as a result, we decided to rule out the possibility of an apparent conflict of interest. The city orders an additional audit of the terms of the design