City Hall bungles tender for its own HQ

A new tender will be announced this month. All the crucial institutions and offices, such as the offices of the City Architect, geodesy, real-estate, economy, monuments maintenance and construction-monitoring departments were to move to new offices in one location. Currently, these offices are scattered around the city, in the Palace of Culture and Science, on ul. Koszykowa, and on ul. Foksal.

The city authorities announced a competition for the lease of appropriate offices that would put them all under one roof six months ago, which called for 15,000 sqm in the center of the city.

The city was willing to pay about zł.500,000 per month in rent and the bid attracted 10 offers, with two leading the pack early on. Apollo Rida was offering space in its Warsaw Trade Tower on ul. Chłodna and Oxford Polska was touting a location slightly nearer the city center in its Intraco II building on ul. Chałubińskiego. The tender commission then took an interest in an offer from the Warsaw Agricultural University (SGGW) and its building on ul. Rakowiecka.

Although Kaczyński had originally said that one of the main points of the tender was to put all the departments under one roof, a decision was made that City Hall would split its offices between Intraco II and the SGGW site.

However, after six months of searches and negotiations, the tender has been cancelled due to formal reasons. The President found a mistake in the works of the commission and a new team will  start the selection process from scratch.