Concerns over InPost winning another Govt tender

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The tender is to provide postal services to national institutions such as ministries, local governments and others. Out of the 38 public tenders submitted by InPost between June to September, the company won 27.

This is considered a hard blow to Polish Post which has found it hard to compete in terms of price. However, in a talk with Polish Radio, Przemyslaw Sypniewski, head of the independent Postal Institute said that other factors might be at stake.

“Services of this kind are very sensitive matters where price should not be the dominant criterion. What about, for example, security issues? This [service will deal with] correspondence from, for example Ministry of Foreign Affairs or National Defence,” Sypniewski said.

“Does anyone take into account the fact that in a few months, the company might be taken over by another foreign entity, for example, a Russian one?”

InPost was founded in 2006 and is Poland’s largest private post operator. (rg)