As a result of complaints filed by Datakom SIA, the Latvian Procurement Monitoring Office has prohibited the Latvian Ministry of Education and Science from entering into two public contracts for the provision of IT system development and operation services. The Procurement Monitoring Office found that Datakom SIA was right in claiming that the purchaser had illegally applied the negotiated procedure in awarding the contracts instead of adopting more open proceedings, as well as establishing a number of other material breaches of the public procurement rules.