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This report was drafted by the participants of non-governmental organizations in the region of Prishtina, who have gained knowledge and practical skills through workshops for the application of lessons on public procurement monitoring, organized by the Civikos Platform within the project “Transparent, Effective Municipalities” and Accountability – TEAM ”which is supported by USAID.

This report was drafted by the Monitoring Group of Non-Governmental Organizations of the Prizren region, who have gained knowledge and practical skills through workshops for applying lessons on public procurement monitoring, organized by the CiviKos Platform within the USAID Transparent Municipality activity. , Effective and Accountable (USAID TEAM).

This report was drafted by the Monitoring Group of Non-Governmental Organizations of the Ferizaj region, who have gained knowledge and practical skills through workshops for applying lessons on public procurement monitoring, organized by the CiviKos Platform within the USAID Transparent Municipality activity. , Effective and Accountable (USAID TEAM).

Participants in the series of workshops were: Arbenita Topalli – INPO Egzon Mustafa – CEDF Qendrim Hoxha – LDA Tringa Raka – Leaves Valentina Abazi – INPO

The aims of these workshops are: (I) activating local NGOs to monitor tenders at the municipal level; (Ii) training NGOs to analyze tender findings and detect potential misuses in public procurement with direct support from engaged facilitators; and (III) NGOs are able to prepare and publish reports on their findings when monitoring public procurement at the local level.

During the workshops the Monitoring Group has selected the monitoring of the procurement activity entitled “Construction of physical education hall in the village of Gaçkë – second phase” with procurement number 656-18-1767-5-2-1, with estimated contract value 100,000,000 €.

Findings from monitoring the implementation of this procurement activity reveal the need to strengthen the rule of law from the procurement planning phase to the signing of the contract, as well as increasing the accountability of public officials who are directly or indirectly involved. in initiating and implementing procurement.

This report was drafted by the Monitoring Group of Non-Governmental Organizations of the Gjilan region, who have gained knowledge and practical skills through workshops for applying lessons on public procurement monitoring, organized by the CiviKos Platform within the USAID Transparent Municipality activity. , Effective and Accountable (USAID TEAM).

Participants in the series of workshops were: 1. Ardianë Ahmeti – KCIC – Gjilan 2. Vjose Avdiu – KCIC – Gjilan 3. Sherafedin Vranja – Dardana Press – Kamenica 4. Vjollca Ramabaja – Transparency, Monitoring – Gjilan 5. Besime Maliqi – NOPM-Kamenica 6. Valentina Veseli – KAND – Gjilan

The goals of these workshops are: (I) activating local NGOs to monitor tenders at the municipal level; (Ii) training NGOs to analyze tender findings and detect potential misuses in public procurement with direct support from engaged facilitators; and (III) NGOs are able to prepare and publish reports on their findings when monitoring public procurement at the municipal level.

During the workshops, the Monitoring Group selected the monitoring of the procurement activity entitled “Regulation of the Square on the Mirusha River-South” with procurement number 651-18-5661-5-2-1 and estimated contract value of 294,894.40 Euros.

The findings of monitoring the development of this procurement activity reveal the need to strengthen the rule of law from the procurement planning phase to the signing of the contract, as well as increasing the accountability of public officials who are directly or indirectly involved in initiating and procurement implementation.

This report is drafted by the Monitoring Group by Non-Governmental Organizations from the Region of Peja, with those that gained knowledge and practical skills through applied learning workshops on monitoring public procurement, organized by CiviKos Platform supported by USAID Transparent, Effective and Accountable Municipalities activity in Kosovo (USAID TEAM)

The Monitoring group has monitored the tender “Asphalting of Local Roads in Village Vitomericë”. This tender was initiated by the contracting authority Municipality of Peja. This project was planned for completion in 2018/19. The majority of the budget for this tender is funded by the Ministry of Infrastructure (MI), but the procurement for this tender was conducted by the Municipality of Peja. According to the budget of this project, the amount from the MI was 160,720.00 € in 2018, while in 2019 the MI planned to provide 15,000.00 €. The Municipality of Peja plans to cover the remaining 48,150.20 €.

The Monitoring Group has performed indirect monitoring of the tender – “Industrial Recycling Center for Pre-Classified or Mixed Waste” which should have the processing capacity for pre-classified or mixed waste of 20,000 tons / year “1.

This tender was initiated by the Municipality of Mitrovica in the first part of 2018. Procurement procedures were concluded, while the contract was signed in September 2018 with the consortium “Alfa I & RECY technologies”, in the amount of 3,395,070 euros.

The Monitoring Group has found some legal violations, which, although seemingly small and procedural, have led to the restriction of competition for this tender and in the end to reward with a contract the only operator that has been in the competition.

The tender was initiated by the Municipality of Mitrovica on 14 May 2018, with the publication of the ‘contract notice’ on the electronic procurement website of the PPRC, and the submission of bids was scheduled to take place on 20 June 2018. Setting the deadline for submission of The tender was conducted in violation of Article 44, point 2.1.1 of the Procurement Law, which stipulates that for large contracts the deadline for submission of bids must be a minimum of 40 days from the date of publication of the contract notice.

The Municipality of Mitrovica in the meantime had corrected the errors, but did not extend the deadlines as required by the Procurement Law and thus prevented the operator “TEHNIX” doo – Croatia and “TEHNIX” doo – Macedonia from complaining. Furthermore, the omissions made by the Municipality of Mitrovica were not identified even by the Procurement Review Body that had this case under review.

One of the disputed issues in this tender is an error issued by the Municipality of Mitrovica in the “Contract Notice” in the English language version. The Municipality of Mitrovica has issued an error in the case of drafting and attaching in e-procurement to the part of the description of prices in English, in the Excel table are not calculated at all the customs costs in the amount of 8%, and this has made the operators who have applied based on the file in English to bid incorrectly, ie without calculating customs costs.

The group found that two more omissions were made by the Municipality of Mitrovica. The Municipality has accepted bids in Italian, contrary to the requirements of the Procurement Law to accept only bids in the official languages ​​of Kosovo.

Despite the fact that the criterion for awarding the contract was set “The most economically advantageous price”, which does not take into account only the price, the group estimates that the sub-criteria were not measurable and relevant for this project.