Rama's Committee of Progress adapted the 9.5 million-way tender to A just one company in Kosovo

The municipal procurement has opened tenders with limited procedure for this tender, which means it will qualify at the maximum of 6 economic operators for the second phase.

Periscope found that the municipality, contrary to the Public Procurement Law. - LPP and other secondary rules have set a discriminatory criterion for competing companies, or Only favouring one company.

As in any other public procurement, in this procedure, in contract recognition and tender adoption, the criteria have been set for technical and professional capacity.

The criterion professional capacityThe municipality has asked five graduates for different jobs, but there has been a more specific request with an engineer: A graduate engineer or Ms. Min communication direction machine. Five years of work experience. Be Certificate for” Installation and light equipment programming.

So, municipal procurement demanded that this communications engineer of this one International Certificate. As seen in the tender file, such a demand nHe didn't do it for other engineers.

Based on the Public Procure Law, this criterion is discriminaterseither Favorable for a company. According to a research of Periscope, Such certificate in Kosovo only possesses an engineer, no one else. It is the engineer Korab Shehu, who has been equipped in Italy with this certificate.

This request that the municipality put in a tender file with automatism Only favours an economic operator and reduce competition.

So the engineer who specializes in running Road Communications and who is equipped with degrees from university institutions and with minimum five years of work experience is not appropriate for this position, just because he doesn't have a treatment-training.

This requirement conflicts with Article 7 and 28 of the Public Procurement Law, since according to these provisions, the drafting of conditions and criteria should be done in line with the goal and directed towards ensuring the best approach for all concerned economic operators and tenderers, always in line with the standards applied to the law, and not set as criteria a certificate that only one person owns in Kosovo.

This is essentially about certificate “Design and Information of ITS (Intellent Transport System) for Trapic and Transport Management in Urban Areas”

Periscope has sent several questions to the Pristina municipality's address, where it has asked to know why such a criterion has been set, and whether an operator will be expelled from the race if he meets all criteria but lacks engineering this certificate. The Pristina municipality has refused to respond during today.

Not even Shehu responded to Periscop's interest.

Periscop found Shehu a shareholder in the company UNP.K, which for primary activity has technical testing and analysis. This company is participating in the contract in public tenders.

Periscope has also looked at special contracts that have only to do with the traffic problem that engineering will do on A Street, which has been asked for certificates. Nowhere has he faced such a request. In fact, with June 8th 2022, the Pristina municipality has implemented a contract for “maintaining Semafores” at a value of about 150 thousand euros for three years. The winner was a operator: Bahri Aslan.

Periscope has seen the tender file of this procedure and no certificates have been requested for communications engineering. So this request was, but it was required that he have completed only university schooling.

Construction of the A road, expected to cost around 22m euros and will be financed by the Pristina municipality and the Ministry of Infrastructure. The first part will include the segment from Vjetrnik to the continuation of the B%” Street. /Mentor Buzhala -Periskopi/