KSF still with no personnel professional staff preparing food

Kosovo Security Force (FSK) is continuing to be supplied with food through active contracts of the Central Procurement Authority (AQP). So, there are still professionally recruited staff of cooks and support staff at KSF. But it is found that the contest has already been closed, while its procedures are expected to be completed within 45 days.

Still no personnel have been selected to prepare food for KSF members. But it is concluded that the competition, whose procedures are envisioned, is now closed within 45 days.

There is no contract with economic operators on food issues that is directly linked to the Ministry of Defence as the Accounting Authority. It has been known several times that the Ministry of Defence is exploiting active AQP contracts until the recruit of professional staff of cooks and support staff, whose admission has only closed the” contest, says the defence ministry's response to RTK.

E for “Procuring challenges for KSF food”, Progress initiative (INPO) has emerged with a report.

INPO says the report considered the legality and effectiveness of procedures followed by the Ministry of Defence during the 1920s-2024.

According to this analysis, lack of transparency, frequent use of negotiating procedures without publishing contract announcements, unfair treatment of economic operators and other problems has been highlighted.

The defence ministry's recommended economic operator “The EPS has not met one of the first criteria in the tender file. This contract was completed in 2023, and the Ministry of Defence's inability to reach another regular contract has been imposed on the Ministry of Defence that, on behalf of the emergency situation, Arber Kabashi, an official monitoring officer in INPO.

According to INPO analysis, one of the main issues identified in this research is the provision of the contract for the irresponsible economic operator and the lack of proper legal measures to suspicious documentation.

“We have recommended for the Ministry of Defence that in the future be careful to draft technical specifications so that problems that lead to no contract contract contract contract contract contract contract contract contract contract contracting to have”, Kabashi adds.

Also, according to INPO analysis, the use of emergency situations has created an environment that violates fair competition and favours certain operators.