The Supreme Chamber of Control inspected the six branches of the General Directorate – Lodz, Krakow, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Szczecin, Olsztyn, which manage nearly 7 thousand. km of national roads. NIK checked how road builders took care of routine maintenance of roads, as coordinated the renovations, and how their actions affect the comfort of road users.
In the opinion of the Supreme Chamber of Control, the GDDKiA not care about the scheduling of work and the work that they do not hinder travel and were carried out at times of peak traffic.
A lot of objections to the operation of the branch GDDKiA Lodz
According to the report, the auditors of the Chamber especially a lot of objections to the operation of the branch of the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways in Łódź. The local branch is not aligned its work with contractors exact terms and hourly intervals carry out repairs so that as little as possible, they hinder drivers traveling.
– The result allowed repeatedly to occupy by contractors lane in times of highest traffic, recognizing that the only determinants for starting the works are good weather and the fact that the work does not interfere with other on a given stretch of road – says a spokesperson for the Supreme Chamber Paul Biedziak control.
According to controllers branch in Lodz had not been properly prepared in the event of extraordinary events on national roads; he had developed plans or emergency procedures (except for toll roads), define how to deal with such situations (eg. how to quickly reach the accident site when the traffic jams or the method for determining the detours). Such plans General Directorate of Lodz began to develop only during NIK – Chamber stressed in a statement.
Director of the Division instead to establish good cooperation with the State Fire Brigade, she came with her powers dispute. It happened often that firefighters during rescue operations could not have contact with the road manager, the manager did not show up at the scene or refused to accept the site of the accident. The results also suggest checking for improper maintenance of road infrastructure. For example, they revealed by the auditors. Damaged, unmarked or improperly operating hydrants and the inability to quickly open the gates to a service area.
Cases obvious conflict of interest
NIK in Lodz Department also noted cases of obvious conflicts of interest, eg. to award contracts on duty at the winter maintenance of roads have been involved people who should be excluded from such proceedings, due to justifiable doubts as to their impartiality because their spouses were employed by a contractor who won the tender. What’s more, they submitted earlier statement about the lack of evidence to exclude them from the procedure.
In addition, employees of the Lodz branch of the General Directorate performed orders for companies that won tenders published by the Department. As indicated by the NIK inspectors work to be contracted out in accordance with the law and performed “after hours”, but here too there have irregularities. While performing outsourced, fixed roster with winter road maintenance for external entities, the employees render the same time other works – for the Division and assigned to them by their superiors from the Department. For example, road builders instead of checking – for third parties – current weather forecasts and monitor the dyżurek situation on the road, doing tours or conducted interventions on the road for “primary employer”. In addition to the business they used the cars. This means that the outsourced service contractors actually not been done, although branch pay for them.
Entrepreneur in turn paid not actually steps you ordered, but the daily duties of branch employees (including fuel and use cars). Overall, the cost associated with the use of company cars and expenses for breach of the agreement reached in 2014. More than 17 thousand. zł. The employees themselves indicate that similar practices were used in the Lodz branch since at least 2007., And management knew it.
NIK auditors also detected irregularities in other departments of the General Directorate of Roads and Motorways. Among other things, verified unreliable contractors offer for winter maintenance of roads; there were delays in the preparations for the winter season, road builders did not provide adequate stocks for example. salt, sand for winter road maintenance; Mandatory tours and inspections of national roads was carried out in accordance with accepted principles, unreliably documented these actions or even entered in the registers cases of improper maintenance of roads after identifying them by the controllers of NIK; road builders from Krakow paid nearly 600 thousand. zł per order, before the date of its actual execution.
GDDKiA responds to allegations of NIK
GDDKiA sent to the commentary noted that the SCC has studied six branches and five of them control satisfactory results and objections concerned the department of Lodz.
– the control of five areas of activity. In two of these branch in Lodz he received a passing grade, and three negative. After referring, in the framework of the NIK proceeding, the Commission decisive to take account of objections as a whole in the area of the fifth – supervision over the execution of maintenance-repair national road network, removing negative assessment of the partial “- pointed GDDKiA. It was added that in other areas, the Commission took into account objections in full, in part or rejected them.
As noted by the GDDKiA, now are considered conclusions of their examinations. In the case of remarks submitted to the operation of the branch in Krakow “drawn the consequences of business against the former no longer an employee.”
GDDKIA also pointed out that especially during holiday weekends, work affecting the liquidity increased traffic is interrupted. An example would be carried out under warranty exchange noise barriers on the A2 motorway near Warsaw. It was pointed out that in the case of repairs roads, like the on A4 technology work carried out requires good weather. Both before starting work and in their progress, carried out an extensive information campaign. Whenever they used to inform all possible channels: website GDDKiA, social media, as well as press, radio and television, so drivers always have the latest information on the work carried out.
IAR / PAP, bless, fko
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