The research comes up: KEK spends most of our money

The Kosovo Energy Corporation is the company with mostly public money expenditures through tenders, according to a recent report.

The investigation of the organisation Get up and Preportr showed that this company is continuing to be audited.

According to the KEK report, it is the public institution to which most complaints are being filed by economic operators over violating the Procuration Law. On the other hand, this company itself has sometimes failed to respect the OSHP's decisions.

Preportr's research shows KEK is the institution with the largest participation in public procurement in Kosovo. Through tenders this company spends millions of euros in one year. Only during 2007-2017 KEK has had over 10,000 public procurement activities worth over 1.3 billion euros.

Under this research, Preportr has reviewed contracts of high value in KEK during 2007-2017. During this period KEK has awarded 955 tenders worth about 752m euros. Benefiters of these tenders are about 300 local and international companies.

Many of the companies winning tenders in the company have been irresponsible and have not done their work under contract. Regarding these violations KEK has penalised various companies over the years. Preport has compared the list of companies penalised by KEK to the list of beneficiaries in the institution and has found that 60 of the 163 penalised companies have won 642 tenders only of high value during 2008-2017, worth over 368m euros.

Many complaints against KEK are submitted by economic operators (OE) in the Research Organisation

Public procurement (OSHP) with the claim that procurement procedures have been influenced or incompatible with the law regulating public procurement.

According to data that has analysed Preportr in 2008-2017 alone, economic operators have exercised 381 complaints in O KEK.

Out of these complaints nearly 50% of them have gone to re-evaluation or re-information.

On the other side KEK, despite its obligation to respect OSHP decisions, has in some cases disobeyed this institution. Praportr found that from 2011 to 2017 O The EPS has issued 10 directives for failing to implement panel review decisions by KEK.

Although this company is the biggest supplier in Kosovo through public procurement, with 33% participating in the report with companies and other organisations, it is not audited by the National Auditor Office (ZKA). This fact is disturbing and paves the way for possible misuse.