Brno respects the decision of the UOHS regarding Tugendhat, the project will be selected again

Brno - The Brno city hall will again select a company to prepare project documentation for the Tugendhat villa. The city will not appeal against the recent decision of the Office for the Protection of Competition (ÚOHS), which mandates this, said the city's mayor Roman Onderka today. How exactly the city hall will proceed further will be decided by the councilors. According to ÚOHS, there were serious errors in the tender, and the city can now choose whether to cancel the entire selection process and announce a new one, or just reconsider the results of the original tender.
    If the city hall decides to only review the selection, the original winner - the consortium led by the company Omnia - will most likely be eliminated from the tender. According to the courts and the antimonopoly office, they did not meet the competition's conditions. The project would then likely be awarded to architect Jan Sapák and his colleagues, who finished second in the tender. However, if the politicians decide to announce a new selection process, the chances of all candidates will be the same.
    Omnia has already completed its original project and has been paid for it. It cost the city treasury over eight million crowns. City lawyers will, according to earlier statements by the mayor, also examine whether the city has incurred more than eight million crowns in damages and from whom it could potentially claim them.
    The project should, among other things, outline the amount needed for the repair of the UNESCO monument. Omnia spoke about 200 million CZK. Architects Ludvík Grym, Jan Sapák, and Jindřich Škrabal, however, claim that the repairs could be carried out more cheaply.
    The villa has been owned by the city of Brno since 1994 and has been waiting for a general renovation for several years. The reconstruction is expected to involve almost everything, including statically compromised foundations. The project cost the city nine million crowns. However, it is important to consider what price each design team calculated for the reconstruction.