Victory in file vs the Ministry of Education

R&R Partners recently had a great victory, in the controversial file on school manuals public procurement versus the Romanian Ministry of Education.

Our client, Booklet Publishing House, had been eliminated from the public procurement procedure without solid grounds. R&R Partners challenged this decision, and the National Council of Appeals (in Romanian: Consiliul National de Solutionare a Contestatiilor – CNSC) ruled in favor of our client and therefore ordered the National Council of Evaluation (in Romanian: Consiliul National de Evaluare si Examinare – CNEE), an institution part of the Ministry of Education, to reinstate Booklet into the procedures.

“We won the appeal following challenging legal confrontations. After our client was disqualified from the school textbooks procurement procedure without solid justification, the contracting authority continued to issue several acts denying their right to compete. Just a few weeks ago, it seemed like we were fighting against windmills. But ultimately, we succeeded – the CNSC made a correct and rigorous application of the law, ruling in our favor. As a result, our client was reintroduced into the school textbooks procurement procedure,” said Ruxandra Vișoiu, lawyer at R&R Partners Bucharest.

According to her statements, this is an unprecedented success in this type of case.

“It is true that the school textbooks procurement procedure presented numerous problems. The fact that 20 out of 27 appeals from publishers were successful only confirms this. But the solution cannot be to eliminate competition by using a single publisher. This is not the direction we should take in a rule of law, market economy country that aims to evolve,” concludes Ruxandra Vișoiu.

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