Procurement Monitor: irregular tenders risk millions

Prishtina, August 2, 2012 – Today, Movement FOL held a press conference, presenting the report “Procurement Monitor” for April to June 2012 period. This report includes legal irregularities conducted by Ministries, Municipalities and Public Enterprise in the field of public procurement.
Programs Manager at Movement FOL, Fidan Kalaja, said that “the data in this report show ‘recidivism’ of many institutions and public enterprises in the legal violations committed during the procurement procedure.” According to him, “KEC leads this group, where during the first half of this year this company has committed offense in 6 different procurement activities, followed by PTK and the Ministry of Infrastructure in three tenders.”

Furthermore, Fidan Kalaja said that “during three-month period from April to June 2012, these institutions have committed violations in 13 different tenders.” He stressed that “among these 13 irregular tenders, we managed to find out their financial amount for only 4 of them, which turns out to be 2.6 million euro, an amount which potentially may have been misused.” However, the majority of other tenders are of great value, which according to the Procurement Law are tenders over 500 thousand euro.
Meanwhile, the Project Coordinator of the Movement FOL, Kenan Tora, said that “ministries have violated the provisions of public procurement in 4 tenders, the Ministry of Infrastructure has violated on two different procurement activities, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports in one procurement activity and Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development in one procurement activity. “

Public Enterprises (KEC and PTK) have continued with violation even during this period, Kosovo Energy Corporation has committed violations in 3 procurement activities, while PTK have committed violations in two tenders.

Municipalities have committed violations in four procurement activities, the municipality of Gjilan, Viti, Ferizaj and Kamenica have committed violations in one procurement activity.
During the three-month period the daily papers have published a total of 62 different reports. Among them 21 journalistic research reports: 6 in April, 8 in May and 7 in June. Meanwhile, 41 of them have been published as breaking news: 13 in April, 23 in May and 5 of them in June.

This activity is funded by the project Democratic Society Promotion (DSP) – funded by the Swiss Cooperation Office in Kosovo (SCO-K) and managed by the Foundation for Civil Society (KCSF) and supported by the Civil Rights Defenders (CRD).

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