Radar, alternatively of being a showcase of the modernity of Polish aviation, became the center of the spy scandal, which the PiS government has been trying to hide from the public for years. The traces of this scandal were so thoroughly wiped out that the Sejm commissions, the D.A. and the NIK did not find out about it, and alarming notes of counterintelligence went to the archives.
Quick tender
The communicative began in July 2015. The Polish government is ruled by Ewa Kopacz. The president of the Polish Air Navigation Agency is Magdalena Jaworska-Maćkowiak. The Agency's public procurement specialists and the flight controllers employed in it agree: PAŻP needs fresh radio navigation equipment. In many countries, the latest generation of secondary radars, which supply controllers not only with more accurate information on the position of aircraft, but besides with their identification. The controller sees the exact data, the cruise number, the exact route, and even knows who's behind the controls. Therefore, in July 2015, there is an authoritative announcement of a tender for the acquisition of modern radar for airspace controllers. The tender is to be settled under the Public Procurement Act, which means that the lowest bidder will be chosen from all tenderers gathering the substantive criteria.
The authoritative offer for the sale and implementation of the "mobile secondary radar" of the MSSR influences PPA. The bidder is N. from Finland. The practice is that serious tendering procedures are ongoing in PPA for 12 months. And the implementation of fresh generation radars in the world's most developed countries lasted 3 to 4 years. Meanwhile, N. stated that it would do so in Poland within 12 months. Since she was the only entity to respond to the tender in PPA, she won it.
Untypical contract
In the fall of 2015, after 8 years of power, the Civic Platform moved to opposition benches, and Eve Kopacz in the Prime Minister's seat replaced Beata Szydło with PiS. While in the fresh political hand there were fights over positions, influences and money, in January 2016, PAŻP's management signed a contract with Finnish company N. to acquisition and install mobile MSSR secondary radar. The agreement provided that it would stand on a parcel owned by PPA in Łódź Voivodeship. It may have appeared that in January 2017, Poland would join countries with the most modern airspace management system. but time passed, and there was inactive no fresh installation.
