For the past few months, the press in Sweden has reported about how Busslink – a public transportation contractor – has over invoiced SL for 733 extra busses. Busses that somehow have been lost on the road. A recent audit shows that “at least 733 busses lack traceable documentation”. No-one seems to know if they ever made it out on the roads, yet they have been invoiced all the less.
Now, one can suspect that no-one ever called off these busses from the contract and given the circumstances that usually call for extra busses to be on the roads in the first place: break downs, weather, traffic situations etc there might not be a simple solution to be able to manage this type of ad hoc situations.
Still, in theory, even the simplest call-off to create a PO solution would have done the trick. 20 years of e-procurement seems to have little impression on SLs view of public procurement.
