German Kurti Block expert returns to A5 Block will be paid 53 000 euros in two months

The biggest employer in Kosovo, the Energy Corporation, is showing that there are no people who know all the corporate affairs. The company is employing foreign experts to solve problems there, even though it has dozens of engineers employed. It is taking a lot of time to complete the tendering procedures through which contracting should also be done.

KEK is urgently contracting with German company “D DS Power Technology GmbH” for expert commitment to providing recommendations for the bloc's ability A5. Consequently, an expert for 60 days of assisting will be employed in a total of 52,760,000 euros. The expert is expected to be the same one that had been assisting in giving recommendations in the past year when it was out of B2 Block function, which was as atrophied as the German “expert of Kurti”.

Block fell in summer, KEK works in midwinter

With temperatures down, Kosovo is expected to enter a power supply crisis, because KEK production will not cover demand, while import is very expensive.

KEK's A5th block of thermal power plant “Kosovo A” is out of office since July 19th 22nd, and the same produces electricity around 130 MWh. If this extra amount of energy is secured during peak time in the coming weeks, the situation would be slightly softer. The reasons the bloc cannot issue even a few months are procurement procedures which corporate officials are not leading responsibly to the emergency situation.

Periscope reported a few days ago that, as of July, KEK announced tenders to repair the turbine and the furnace, but in a tender initiative it had failed. Half of the second initiative has failed.

KEK's procurement has cancelled procurement activity three days ago: “Capital restoration of unit A5 in TC Kosova A LOT 1 Capital Reprogress of Tubine and telco generator LOT 2 Capital Resurgeon of the groundfire”. In fact, it has only cancelled the second part of the contract, while the first one has already been linked to a Macedonian company, but for the bloc to start it all must be done, while the bidding procedures will take a few more months.

“Authenticating Authority, cancels LOT 2 after the end of the negotiations, because the proposed Economic Operator for the contract has announced that because of the inability to obtain materials from producers (global changes in the market) it is unable to implement this contract within the deadline set in the tender” file, it is said in the argument of this tendering procedure that Periscopi has seen.

Initially, for this tender, the corporation had allocated exactly 6m euros, and had decided that by the end of August, it would hold negotiations only with certain companies. So the tender has been closed, not open to large participation.

For the first piece “capital recovery of turbine and generator”, the winner has been extracted from Macedonia “M O NT ING ENEGETICS DOO”, worth 5,136,228,90 euros.

The main activity of this private enterprise is construction, maintenance, remontes, reconstruction and re-visiting of industrial and energy facilities, as well as production of energy equipment. This company has not participated in KEK's works earlier, though it is known for tendering works in the region.

For part two: “The capital recovery of the furnace”, KEK has held negotiations with three companies, one local and two foreigners. The two foreign companies had offered cheaper prices, but KEK had decided to announce the most expensive local company from Obilic “Intering” shpk, which is owned by businessman Jevdet Shoshi. The value offered by this company is 4,162, 122.19 euros.

The German company “Litwin Sa” has offered the price of 4, 012, 035. A hundred euros. While the other German company has been cheaper “Steag Energy Servics GMBH”, with bid 3, 540, 000. A hundred euros. But the Kosovo company, as he said. KEK, has withdrew to the inability to obtain materials from producers and corporate procurement, has been forced to cancel the tender procedure, and will therefore develop new procedures from the start.

At a value of 15m and 506 thousand euros, this company was contracted in summer by KEK in a tender with a source. KEK had decided to negotiate negotiated contracts for the tender “Designation, supply and handling of jobs related to the B2 and B2 commanda in TC Kosova B”. Although KEK had set up a budget worth 11.6m euros, after the value negotiations instead of lowering it had increased for about 4m euros.

Initially, the KEK procurement had opened tender procedures for the same tender in two tears since June this year. The procurement procedure was open, but after a month it had been cancelled in all the procurement activity, since there was no offer.

Currently KEK production blocks are A3=125 units MW/h, A4=12 5 MW/h and B1=25 0 MW/h and B2 at about 260MW/h.

The A5 block, based on earlier planning at KEK for the maintenance of stabilisation and rehabilitation, was intended to become capital remont as early as the summer months of 2021. / P ERISCOPI/