The contract with the Tax Consultants sought for so-called Breeding Room later department data and analytics

The contract with the Tax Consultants sought for so-called Breeding Room later department data and analytics, is flawed. IT services provider Accenture would have received much more information than other bidders. Also, there would have been a too close relationship between former Tax CEO Hans Blokpoel and the IT service provider. This enables TV research program Zembla broadcast in 'Tinker and fiddle without snoopers' which was broadcast on February 1, 2017. Commenting on Computable Accenture denies the allegations.

CEO Taxes & Fees Hans Blokpoel, who resigned in December 2016, was at the helm of the Breeding Room, where the Department based on data innovation within the Tax Department to be realized. In 2013 the department was looking for a company that could help set the Breeding Room.

At the tender process in which consultants for this department were sought, would Accenture are favored by Blokpoel because the company received much more information than competing consulting companies also throw went to the command. This allows the IT service provider could offer a much wider offer at the executive than competitors, says Zembla.

According to the research program had Blokpoel old close ties with Accenture. He was chairman of the jury several times in the created by the company "Innovator of the Year award, which was even last year won by the data and analytics department of the Tax Office.

Foreknowledge
"Everyone knew that if Blokpoel arrives somewhere, Accenture comes along ', said sources from the benefits agency in the Zembla broadcast. According to them, it was clear beforehand that the IT service provider of the tender had to win. In the episode also comes Chris Jansen, professor of private law at the VU discussed. He specializes in procurement issues and it calls into question the way things are. So Jansen finds it striking that the service on the basis of the summary information in the tender commission did manage to establish such a comprehensive quote.

A spokeswoman for Accenture denies the allegations. "We are confident that we have complied with all the relevant requirements for purchasing," she said in a written response. A further explanation of the possible procurement fraud gives the company not.

external research
Commenting on Zembla represents Wiebe's Secretary of Finance the following. "So far no evidence that occurred in this tender irregularities. the tender will be further examined externally based on recent signals. " The third party will conduct the investigation and when the first results are known, is not clear. The spokesman of the Tax Administration indicates that the Secretary answer here indulging in writing yet Room Letter.

In the forthcoming parliamentary elections, all the results manually counted on March 15, 2017. That Minister Plasterk (Interior and Kingdom Relations) decided after commotion about the safety of supporting software. Critics say the move go too far

This measure will prevent the Minister that after the results of the elections the image lingers that the result is possible manipulated by hackers. He writes in  a letter to parliament.  " The messages in recent days about the vulnerabilities of using software from the Electoral Council raise the question whether the upcoming elections could be manipulated to calculate the results. I believe, and that is the Electoral Council agree with me that it had no shadow of doubt should hang. "

Plasterk take 'precautionary' the decision to the next election Package Support Software Elections (OSV), which is used in elections and referendums since 2007, not to use. The software was used to capture, compute and transfer the number of votes per municipality and then region to the polling station and the Electoral Council. On the local polling stations, the outcome has already been processed manually. Later this month, regional meetings for municipalities organized to discuss with local authorities how to go to work now.

The Dutch Verenging for Civil Affairs (NVVB),  said in a response  that by taking some measures the risk of hacking and manipulation of the results of the election software (OSV) can be substantially eliminated. The narrowing interest for public servants who work with personal information expected to abolish the software a deterioration in the quality and considers the calculation by a computer more reliable than manual labor. It surprises the officials Plasterk not only the results of research from Fox-IT wait. That security specialist lighting software currently by order of the Interior. According NVVB yield Plasterk for political and administrative pressure and let him be guided too much by media coverage.