an hour agoSavings that could lead to loss of 2.6m euros from Kosovo budget
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Three years earlier the Central Procurement Agency had launched for the first time the development of centralised procurement, which was aimed at curing the state budget. But an auditing report by the General Auditor's Office finds that this initiative risks costing the Kosovo Government budget, with losses [...]
Three years earlier the Central Procurement Agency had launched for the first time the development of centralised procurement, which was aimed at curing the state budget.
But an auditing report by the General Auditor's Office finds that this initiative risks costing the Kosovo Government budget, with a loss of 2.6m euros, KTV reports.
All of this as a result of low implementation, the failure of a 70-man contracted threshold respectively.
Insufficient analysis of the (diviral) pre-conventional contracts of the contracting authorities and the lack of any form of market research resulted in contracting prices more expensive than those reached at the market, there are some findings in the auditing report of the Kosovo General Auditor's Office.
During 2016 alone, the Central Procurement Agency had signed contracts worth 44m euros.
This agency, between 2015 and 2016, had initiated eight centralized procurement procedures, which have resulted in 13 contracts for articles of common use.
In central Procurement Agency contracts, the audience finds that in 16 months of contract enforcement for paper supplies, an estimated 400,000 euros has been spent, thus realised less than 10 %s of the contract's value.
Even in the contract for official material supply for about 16 months, the contract was only about 16%.
Of all these findings, the audience has found that the AQP has substantial shortcomings in managing the centralised procurement process, in particular with market research and monitoring contract implementation.
The audience in this report requires the government to review the administrative instruction on centralised procurements, and to work with contracting authorities to improve operational issues (communication) in relation to the Central Procurement Agency, forcing them to respond to all its requirements regarding centralised contracts.
Public procurement is one of the areas that receives most of the state budget.
Spending through public procurement is constantly on the rise.
In the past four years, an average of 497m euros have been spent through procurement.
