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PPA report, 191 tenders without competition during 2020, here are the violations and abuses of institutions with public procurement

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Tenders continue to extort the state budget. Projects implemented through tender procedures have always been problematic due to the abuses committed against them. Violations and tender corruption scandals were not absent even during 2020, when the country needed more transparency for the money coming out of the state budget. The annual analysis report published by the Public Procurement Agency states that last year the number of tenders without prior announcement, ie without competition opportunities, prevailed. In total, only 191 tenders were awarded through negotiations, a number much higher than in 2019. As the number of these tenders has increased due to projects against Covid-19 and reconstruction, the government has been forced to increase funding for them. . During 2020, 4.2 billion ALL were spent, about 8. 2% more than 2019, while 6 billion were spent on non-emergency tenders. "To cope with emergencies such as pandemics and earthquakes in total during 2020, 191 tenders were negotiated, without prior announcement. The tendered amount amounts to over 4.3 billion ALL, where 2.14 billion ALL have been spent for tenders conducted for Covid-19 and 2.17 billion ALL for the reconstruction process. While in total during 2020 this procurement procedure has been used 416 times by public institutions for work, goods and services ", it is stated in the report. According to the PPA, without Covid-19 and reconstruction, this type of procedure has been used 151 times by the contracting authorities, while compared to the total number of procedures completed with winners, negotiated procedures without prior announcement of the contract notice constitute 8.3% of tire. Meanwhile, PPA shows that these types of tenders have ruined the state budget because they have always left room for more abuses and violations of legislation on tendering procedures. What stands out is that throughout 2020, winners have been announced in both competitive tenders and those with negotiated bidders with the highest price, and this has negatively affected the state budget.

A series of violations and abuses

In the investigations made over a year, the Procurement Agency has found a series of violations and abuses committed by the institutions with the tenders. One of the main concerns that directly affects the state budget is the definition of the limit fund. According to the PPA, the value of the fund used in the contract is different from the value determined by the field studies.

“During the process of administrative investigation and review of audit reports, various deficiencies and violations of public procurement legislation were found by the contracting authorities that have conducted procurement procedures subject to verification. At the same time, the limit fund used for the procurement procedure was different from the value calculated by the market study. The PPA has recommended that the authority be careful in the way of calculating the limit fund ", notes the PPA. The Agency also indicates that unfair disqualifications of bidders in some tenders without negotiation have been made, and some bidders have been accepted, who do not meet the criteria and documentation set by the law on tenders. "Cases have been found, in which the authorities have identified non-compliance with the qualification criteria, but that some of the reasons for disqualification do not stand, although the operators in question remain disqualified for other reasons. In some cases, the lack of documentation with minutes for the administration and verification of the documentation submitted in written form, by the economic operator declared the winner, before the conclusion of the contract was identified. "Also, in some other cases, the authorities do not specify the manner of submitting the documentation," the report said.