The audience deals with the media, very little with giant tenders at KEK

General Auditor's office, for the first time, has made an audit for Kosovo Energy Corporation as well. - KEK. General findings do not turn out to be as large as this company, which is the biggest employer in public Kosovo and the largest spender of public money. In spite of that, the audience has decided to give a great deal of commitment and emphasis to media-related contracts during the early years. It gives criticism of how KEK has not met the goal of promoting their work as much as possible...

The German expert's contract committed to several repairs at KEK in the past year, which was in large numbers, has found no place in the investigation of the National Audition Office -ZKA. This is because the foreign audience has decided to audit the financial mirrors of the company for the year 2018 -20. So not from the time of Kurti II government.

During the 1920s-2020s, it has extended 1,000-60 contracts totaling 181.5m euros. The procurement in KEK to date has not been audited by the National Audition Office, so given the high value of procurement contracts, it has been in public interest to become a huge assessment from the aspect of procurement.

As a result, the audience has decided that a very large focus, ranking the second in terms of its importance, gives up several contracts KEK has linked to local media. According to Z KEKAU had failed to meet the media promotion target.

“The research units and the procurement office had not identified needs and had not done market analysis, which had resulted in unclear and unmatched procurement targets. As a result, they were connected year after year, whose contract had been unknown to the implementation of targets. A total of 377,140 euros that were spent on media promotion during the 1920s-2020s, KEK had achieved only 59,113 euros in returns through the professional training centre. So only 15% of the spent amount had managed to turn into an inflow, while for the other objective it had not measured the” effect, the report said.

According to the audience, contracting this service with these operators, the KEK management had seen it as a solution to the opinion awareness of KEK's work since during the daily monitoring of the media had noted that the majority of citizens were still not well informed about the responsibilities KEK had after the process of corruption, with particular emphasis following the privatisation of Supplication and Electricity Distrition, despite the fact that from May 2013, the EC's exclusive business is production.

“KEK had not applied clear criteria to select OEs that would best meet the target objective. KEK had not asked any OE to bring any evidence regarding the number and kind of audience (pretators, readers), so each OE's capacity in terms of implementing KEK's targets was unknown. KEK had contracted these contracts year after year by spending an average of 162 thousand euros a year, without ever measuring the effect of these contracts”, it is said further in the report.

What are the other findings?

By 2020, through public procurement, KEK had contracted expenditures worth 36m euros, while in the preliminary years (2019 and 2018), contracted spending was 88m euros, respectively, 56m euros.

The audience's findings in the tender, mainly of nature, are of misplanning procurement procedures, narrowing competitiveness, etc. To even show how many irregularities there are, the audience has been called into media reports.

A lot of reports in the media and research by civil society organisations have found observations on procurement activities that KEK has developed, said the audit report.

So over the years 2018-2020, the total value of contracts KEK has connected is 181.5m euros. The value of contracts related to negotiated procedure, over the past three years, totals nearly 33m euros, representing 18% of the total value of KEK-related contracts, while the rest of the 82% are contracts with open procedure.

ZKA has only audited around 35% of the total procurement value, negotiated contracts worth 7.75m euros and 55m euros from open procedures.

Following the findings, the audience also issues recommendations to the institution. Considering that this company is an audience for three years, only 8 recommendations have been issued, which is less than any minority municipality can become.

Periscope He researched KEK's procurement and found that last year this budget organisation implemented 522 tenders in a value of 32,463,743.65 euros and all these contracts were left out of the audience's reach, which would be at risk of being covered by dust, as the Auditor is likely to reflect the findings of past years, which would be the next audit for financial mirrors 2022.

As for example, the contracts carried out last year by KEK that would have to be subjected to auditing are those for diesel fuel fuel fuel fuel fuel fuel , for motors that have been worth 7.5m euros, the capital recovery of turbines and the generator of the A411) bloc, worth 3.2m euros.

That there are major abuses in KEK also indicate that the Public Procureing Organization -The OSCE has cancelled dozens of tenders for the time the ZKA audited.

Reference to O report The announcement for 2020, companies that have had dissatisfaction with tenders carried out by KEK have filed complaints in this institution in 98 cases. Of these, on 38 occasions O The EMS has given corporate procurement rights, in 50 cases it has been given rights to the complaining companies, since it has been calculated that the Public Procure Law has been violated, and the tender has had to be turned into re-evaluation. Then in 2 cases it has been decided that the procedure will be converted into re-enter, because the Law has been flagrantly violated, case these are of criminal nature without a pardon. In one case the order was issued to enforce the OSHP verdict, or follow a fine and withdraw license from the procurement manager, etc.

Reference to O report The EPS, in 2019, had 70 complaints, of them in 22 cases had corporate procurement rights, in others complaining companies. So it has been found that the Law has been violated in about 50 cases.

In 2018 they were deposited in O Saturdays over 60 complaints under the claim that companies have been wronged by the KEK procurement. Of these, 29 cases have been granted corporate procurement rights in 29 cases of companies, where it has been found to be violated the Law, and the tender has become re-evaluated.

The Kosovo government, led by Albin Kurti, had submitted a request to the National Audition Office (ZKA) through which the two public companies -- Trepca sh.a -- and the Kosovo Energy Corporation -- were required to be audited. / P ERISCOPI/