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Negotiation Procedures Without Publication at the General Directorate for Communal Housing and Development
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Negotiation Procedures Without Publication at the General Directorate for Communal Housing and Development

Author: Olga Diaconu The full original version can be accessed here   According to the procurement plan for 2023, the General Directorate for Communal Housing and Development (DGLCA) expressed their intent to spend 329,785,904 lei without VAT through negotiations without prior publication of a contract notice. The amount expected to be spent through the negotiations…

Repair work ignoring the provisions applicable to monuments
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Repair work ignoring the provisions applicable to monuments

Author: Olga Diaconu The full original version can be accessed here   In 2021, the General Directorate of Architecture, Urban Planning and Land Relations carried out the procurement procedure for the completion of the Central Urban Plan (PUZ Centru), no. ocds-b3wdp1-MD-1622828742738, carried out by the General Directorate of Architecture, Urban Planning and Land Relations. The…

Limiting the transparency of public procurement by using the framework agreement procedure
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Limiting the transparency of public procurement by using the framework agreement procedure

Author: Olga Diaconu The full original version can be accessed here   The use of the framework agreement procedure, although welcome in many cases, entails certain risks, potentially limiting competition. Public procurement legislation anticipates such cases and expressly prohibits the use of the framework agreement for the purpose of distorting competition. Another problem is the…

Directorate of Education, Youth and Sport Briceni
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Directorate of Education, Youth and Sport Briceni

Author: Olga Diaconu The full original version can be accessed here   A more recent case of abusive conduct on the part of a contracting authority, which generated a large number of appeals, was the tender for the procurement of capital repair works at the “Grigore Vieru” Theoretical High School, no. ocds-b3wdp1-MD-1646983111782, carried out by…

Procurement of ID blank templates worth half a billion lei, launched as an emergency procedure by the Public Services Agency
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Procurement of ID blank templates worth half a billion lei, launched as an emergency procedure by the Public Services Agency

  The vacation season is often a very “fertile” one for questionable procurements. Right before the vacation season, some authorities suddenly decide to initiate very high value public procurement procedures, clearly violating legal provisions. A few days before Easter, on 26 April 2021, the Public Services Agency made radical adjustments to its public procurement plan…