FOL Openly for procurement in the Ministry of Justice

Prishtina August 19, 2011 – Movement FOL held the next day debate of the Forum FOL Openly, discussing the procurement in the Ministry of Justice, including the tender for the supply of meat and meat products in this Ministry.

Panellists in this debate were the chancellor of the Minister of Justice Mrs. Laura Zherka, Besnik Tahiri acting procurement officer in the Ministry of Justice and Admir Salihu from Movement FOL.
Laura Zherka, chancellor of the Minister said “the Ministry of Justice has invited all political parties, media and NGOs to participate in the monitoring of procurement procedures in this ministry, the ministry also during this term has made some changes in terms of procurement procedures, starting with the selection of admissions committee members, who are selected 3 hours before the bids are opened, which leaves no room for misuse, as well as website of the Ministry of Justice is completed with all the details about tenders and expenses of this ministry, “she concluded.

Besnik Tahiri, also repeated that the Ministry of Justice from this term is opened to all NGOs, and the concerns of NGOs are taken into account by the Ministry. Regarding the tender for the supply of meat products, he said that “the procurement process has been opened.” “After the procurement procedure has been closed there was a complaint by an economic operator, thus the PRB, return the tender for re-evaluation”. According to him, “the decision of the PRB is respected, but there was a request to the PPRC for interpretation of the law, which is the basis of the tender process.” After a meeting with PPRC and ACA organized by Minister Kuçi, a decision was taken that this tender will be cancelled and re-tendered.

Admir Salihu, monitoring officer at FOL Movement said “monitoring at the Ministry of Justice is being done in conformity with the memorandum of understanding with this ministry”. Regarding this tender “Our suspicion from the beginning had to do with the existence of the possibility of cooperation between economic operators and the requesting unit, and the possibility that the economic operator had knowledge about the availability of funds for this tender of this ministry.” movement FOL actively participated in the proceedings of tenders opening and evaluation. Movement FOL has monitored 16 tender at this Ministry so far, not including re-tendering. According to Mr. Salihu “during this period we have written 5 reports, where we have addressed the problems identified during the bidding process, and the recommendations of these reports have been implemented by this Ministry.”
The debate continued with discussions between panellists and participants present at the debate.