The ridiculous tender on COST- How did the entrepreneur who applied to his two companies get “

Latif Imer, head of business PROGLOBAL S. P. U.S. P. K”, it applied with both its firms in a tender in COST at the end of 2022. It's the “Power project with substation equipment”, worth over 20,000 euros.

At first, he had managed to win the tender with UNTOR Kosovaʹ with cheaper bidding price (21,10 euros) than PROGLOBAL) (23,936 euros).

Then, Imer through PROGLOBAL) as the eliminated economic operator had complained, while he had managed to win it through the most expensive offer after re-evaluation due to the non-fulfilling of a technical specification.

The contract was then signed on January 1st, 2023 with ) PROGLOBAL) of value to watch 23,936 euros.

The National Research Office in the Report on Annual Financial Mirrors for 2023 has cited it as a concern in its findings. It reported that after analyzing business registration documents, they learned that two companies with the same owner had applied for the same tender. So, Latif Myerin.

“Initially, the company had eliminated OE at the cheapest price due to its failure to meet technical specifications and had declared the second economic OE winner at the cheapest price. After a complaint by the eliminated OE, the company had turned the process into re-evaluation where after this process complaints OE were approved to be eliminated. While the OE, which was originally declared the winner, was declared irresponsible after re-evaluating because it did not meet a technical specification that was not part of the complaint. The contract was signed with the date 01.01.23 with the operator that filed complaints worth 23,936$”It says the Black Bank report.

After analyzing business registration documents and verifying them at the Kosovo Business Record Agency, the two operators who had offered in this bidding process had the same business owner. As a result, the company in this case would have to cancel the tender procedure in line with legal requirements”, says among others in the report

According to Insider's research, all of this has happened because of the neglect of responsible procurement persons in COST.

Latif Imer had managed to win a tender in a row. KRU Gjakova, including in the consortium of his two companies. The projected value of the tender was 16 thousand euros, while supplies of gas chlorine canisters were required.

In this regard, concerns had raised an economic operator eliminated from the tender. This economic operator claimed to have single-handedly appointed himself as manager and not owner of the Kosovo Passor Company, in order to avoid conflict of interest.

“Z. Latif Imer, in the lower lines, you can see that he owns (DREJTOR) of the two companies in question that are in conspiracy and participants in this tender, so illegally he acted (for the AK's confusion) by defining his position as manager, so that the introduced representative of the Postor Company Kosovo is named as such (manager), although the same doesn't work anywhere in any document of this company, thus placing the Consercious Authority and confusing it in this aspect of the case., said in complaint from an economic operator to O - It's time.

“Application by the same person as two or more companies except that presents open conflict of interest also contains elements of criminal nature, added the fact that it is not known whether or who signed with and for, and whether there was authorization or this signature has made the same person the same person as attempting to deviate from the discovery we have to deal with the same person”The following complaints.

They've now claimed that the consortium of UNTOR Kosovaʹ and ) PROGLOBAL S. P. These have not offered the certificate of unique identification number as full “hiding pages for who is the owner of the company”, respectively.

However, O This claim had been dropped, with the reasoning that since the two companies were involved They're in a consortium, and they're not competitive in each other. This procurement procedure, no conflict of interest.

As a consortium “PROGLOBAL SH.P.K.; UNDERTOR KOSOVA U.S.A. k” had supplied fire extinguishing equipment and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, worth about five thousand euros.

Initially, the projected value of the contract was 9,992,00, but the cost of contracting was lower.