Hysen Durmish does not punish the five-cent company that left him without the highway, tenders him again

The group of companies “Damastion Project” & “Via Egnatia”, contracted by MMPHI, in 2020 had eroded asphalt for several miles on both sides of Pristina's National Path, namely in the midst of the villages of Lapusnik. The road had never been asphalted, and the ministry had never punished the company as well. And now, ironic is that despite poor work, the same company is expected to be rewarded with tenders again for maintaining Kosovo highways.

In this regardPeriscope. has found that the group's leader company “Design Project”, which is obliged to asphalt that part, has contract quality two months with the ministry. The company is not paralysing the route in question, since when it offered for a tender, it had not been realized that there would be a need for asphalt, only for maintenance. So he had put the price “on the ground” at the asphalt position. Exactly five cents had put the offer for m2 for the asphalt spread, while other maintenance elements had swollen prices. Finally, the cheapest company had been released and had been awarded contracts.

The new MMPHI procurement leadership has decided to repay again with tender for maintenance of the company's highways in question. That Trio includes “Company Eskavator”. Unlike last time, when the company had set prices of 5 cents per m2 per m2 per asphalt to 4.5cm, we have learned that companies have now set prices of about 7 euros per m2.

Periscop has tried to get an answer from the ministry that at the top has Libran Ali and in management Hysen Durmishin, but they have not returned an answer to how the company that is not patching up the road has been valid for two months.

What's your contract now?

On February 17th, 2022, the Ministry's procurement has opened a framework tender for 36 months of high value with open procedure, the type of service for “Summer and Winter Preservation of the A7 Highway (Ibrahim Rugova), tear 1 and 2 and summer and winter maintenance of the A6 Auto (Arber Xhaferi) tear and 4”

The projected value of the contract for three years is 16m of $434 thousand.

Initially, the demand in the tender file for the four parts has been for companies to offer at the price of the entity. But seeing that the framework tender for services does not allow this form of entity bidding, but in quantity, the ministry's procurement has corrected the tender file and has decided that calendar year offers 2022-23, and 2024-2025 are allocated at the price for quantity, while companies' offers for the 2023-2024 calendar year are placed in quantity. In a word, this job has made the tender file, namely, the size part where dozens of items should be bought by the ministry (from salt to the appearance of asphalt, or mowing grass).

The ministry has accepted a total of 18 bids for the tender. 14 of them were a group of companies, while only four of them were competing as single companies. Most contestants have applied for four parts.

The ministry's procurement, which is led by manager Nexhat Krasniqi, has opened offers and recommended contracting these companies.

Lot 1 has won the Group of Company leaders “Lake Company” KPS & “Lake Trade”

Lot 2: Group of companies with company leader “2A Group” KPS & NNT “ABC” KPS & “B CORP” KPS & “J UBICA” KPS.

Lot 3. Group of companies, with company leader “Damastion Project” shpk & “Via” & “Company Eskavator”.

Lot 4. Group of companies with company leader “Arbotec” KPS & “Arbotec GMBH” Dega in Kosovo.

There have been companies that have offered cheaper than these recommended groups, but are excluded from the race for various reasons because they have not met the requirements.

What was the 2019 contract?

Early in July 2019, the Ministry of Infrastructure had signed a framework contract for three years called “the routine and winter maintenance of the A7 auto (Ibrahim Rugova) and A6, from the A7 A6 crossroads to the joint in Konjuh, as well as the National N9” route.

The contract was divided into two tears.

The second part was won by group companies <x0) Urban”  About 3 million and 500 thousand and 654 euros and 70 cents, and it was about maintenance: The Bessy-Gugyca Department, the crossroad of A7/A6 to Konjuh and the key to N2 national route.

So the road in Komoran has been eroded by companies “Damstate Project & Via Engineering& Urban”

Days ago Periscop also reported that 820 thousand meters of asphalt were eroded there. which currently costs about 7 euro m2 euros of fiber asphalt on the market, which the company would cost about 1.3m euros, if made by asphalt. The company, according to the contract which is published in the CRPP, on the contract price list, chapter 5 involving “maintenance of asphalt layers”, score 5.5 has preceded the “SMA re-circulation SMA, 11 with an average thickness of 4 cm of corrosion”. In this contract, for three years, the number of 210, 600, has been preempted. 0 m2, at a value of 0.5 cents per m2. Its total is only 10 thousand and 530 euros.

So it seems that the company had offered at low prices to this position only to win the contract, not counting that road asphalt would be required, while in other positions it had placed extremely high prices. For example, knowing that there may only be a need in the field for repair of some section of the road, he had set a price of 12 euros per m2 for the 5.2 “Determination of the pits, tracks, cracks of the circuit layer up to 4 cm of thickness”. The intervention for this position was preceded at 1200m2 at a price of 14,400 euros. 99 thousand euros was meant to be cleaned up and washed at least 2 times a year of district space for 165km, which amounted to 600 euros per cent.

Article 9 of this contract has to do with “Cutting the contract from the Contractable Authority”. It clearly shows when unilateral contracts can be cut off on the part of the Accounting Authority.

“9.1 The contracting authority can, after providing 14 days of warning services provider, cut the contract into one of the following cases:

The Service Reference fails within a reasonable deadline of warning given by the contracting authority that requires it to avoid any neglect or failure to fulfill its commitments under the contract, and which seriously affect the proper and more time of service realisation. (b) The Service Offerer rejects or is negligent in rejecting admirative orders given by the contracting authority”.

So, the Accounting Authority -- the Ministry of Infrastructure, has not applied this under the contract. On the contrary, in the new tender it has again recommended for contract the same company, but now it will be engaged in another part, it's the segment from the A7/A6 highway cross with N2 national road, the Veternik crossroads to Ferizaj's key.

Periscop has managed to see financial offer The company “Damstad” which is recommended for tears 3“, which has to do with the fulfillment of the parameter. Now in the new offer, on the asphalt layer, the company has set a price of 6.80 euros per m2 for the new SMA circuit layer, 16 with an average thickness of 4.5cm. So in the same article, the preliminary contract had a price of 5 cents. The article is precisely about the thickness of the road that has been eroded by the company.

Another article dealing with layers of asphalt is also <x0 malpractice of large damage up to 17 cm of thickness”. The price of 12 euros has now been set in this article, while 10 cents was set in the previous contract.

Periscope has seen that the company has not placed prices at about 200 items, as requested in the tender file. Thus, it has left most of its size unfulfilled.

The section of the road that has remained eroded, which has had to be cross-transformed, will now fall on the responsibility of group companies recommended for the Lot 2: “2A Group” KPS & NNT “ABC” KPS & “B CORP” KPS & “J UBICA” KPS.PERISCOP/