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
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
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…
One-year warranty terms for road repairs at State Roads Administration
Author: Olga Diaconu The full original version can be accessed here AGER monitors realized that public procurement contracts for road repair works concluded by the State Roads Administration continue to have a warranty period of only one year starting from the completion of the works, regardless of the money paid for the repairs. Another…
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…
Restrictive specifications at the design stage of the works
Author: Olga Diaconu The full original version can be accessed here In many cases, the distortion of competition occurs at the design stage of the works, when the author of the project carries out the project in such a way as to determine the contractor awarded the contract to subcontract the author of the…
Suspicions of fraud or how Chisinau Mayor’s Office selected between two non-compliant bids
Author: Diaconu Olga Versiunea în limba română poate fi accesată aici As I wrote in one of the previous articles, the National Agency for Settlement of Complaints (NASC) issued an order on annulment of the decision of the Chisinau Mayor’s Office to award the procurement contract for 100 buses to MAZ company by its Decision No.…
How a public bath was (not) built in Balti, a project for which about 5 million MDL were spent
Authors: Vitali Cozearschi, Diana Grosu Versiuna în limba română poate fi accesată aici Millions of MDL were wasted, but no one was punished. From the very beginning, we will try to find out where the idea regarding the reconstruction of the public bath comes from: On 8 June 2015, in the Dacia neighborhood, Renato…
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…