Prokom concludes long-running financial row with ZUS

The Social Insurance Administration (ZUS) has reached a final agreement with its IT system administrator Prokom, and paid them a final installment of zl. 20.8 million. This ends months of negotiations between Prokom and ZUS. Prokom had been demanding payment for acting as the ZUS IT system administrator between 1999-2001. In November 2001, the company calculated that the Social Insurance Administration still owed them zl. 144 million. After several months negotiations ZUS agreed to pay Prokom zl. 66 million, but Prokom demanded an additional zl. 57 million, but eventually agreed to accept a final payment of zl. 20.8 million for this latter sum. This means that Prokom received zl. 86.7 million out of the zl. 144 it initially demanded. "This now settles our financial matters with ZUS," Prokom president Ryszard Krauze said. (Gazeta Wyborcza, Sept. 28-29, p. 32; Parkiet, p. 4) A.Z.