Agencja Z&T accused of unfairly winning the tender for EU commercials

On Friday daily Zycie published an article about the tender for making TV commercials on the European Union (EU) to be broadcast before the referendum on joining the EU, which was won by Agencja Z&T, formerly known as Zeitz & Tober. It's deputy president and shareholder to 1998 was Michal Tober, who now is the government's spokesman. Zycie also reported that during the tender, rules of the public orders law were broken. According to Slawomir Wiatr, who is government's commissioner responsible for information on the EU, the tender was conducted in accordance with the law with the cheapest offer was selected. Five companies including TVP S.A., PHU Media Corporation, Pay Studio, Projektor Media and Agencja Z&T were invited to participate. Ryszard Straus, acting as head of Wiatr's secretariat, said that price was the only criterion used in choosing the winner. However, the leaders of the opposition were shocked at the result of the tender. "It doesn't matter whether it was his company in the past or at present. It just is not fair," the Civic Platform (PO) leader Andrzej Olechowski told Radio RMF FM. The leader of Law and Justice (PiS) Lech Kaczynski, said that he wants the parliamentary commission on Europe to be summoned immediately. Its head, Jozef Oleksy from the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), said that the commission will investigate the issue. (Gazeta Wyborcza, May 18-19, p. 4) A.Z.