Individual Grant Payments for the Reconstruction after the Earthquake, focus on Election Campaigns, 2020 – May 2023 comparison

Open Data Albania is bringing up to date the distribution of individual grants in the frame of the Reconstruction Program after the Earthquake, in non Election months, throughout the 2020-2023 period, and in the months part of Election Campaigns (30 days before voting). Construction or Reconstruction grants have benefited families damaged by the natural disaster, whose residential houses have been classified as damaged or uninhabitable.…

Ranking of the most successful Economic Operators of the Reconstruction Program, based on the size of the contracts awarded, contracting from 2020 to April 2023

Open Data Albania is ranking economic operators announced as successful bidders in the Contracting Procedure for the Reconstruction Program after the earthquake of November 26, 2019. The period under review is January 2020 to April 2023. The data under examination are part of the Open Data’s monitoring of Public Contracts by way of its two databases, Reconstruction Program Contracting in Municipalities and Contracting carried out by the…

The Reconstruction Fund: Budgeting and Consolidation Plan, 2020 – 2023, revisions in the State Budget

The Albanian Government’s Reconstruction Program, introduced in Brussels at the donors’ conference, held in February 2020, presented damages and the need for intervention in the amount of Euros 1.076 billion or (about ALL 131 billion at the February 2020 exchange rate). This figure was calculated by the Albanian Government as damages and the need for intervention after the Consequences of the Earthquake of November 26,…

The Construction Costs Index and the state’s decision to provide additional funding for Public works Contracts

The Albanian Government has approved the Normative Act, with the force of Law, act no. 10, dated May 18, 2022, for the Financial Compensation due to the increase in the price for some construction materials, based on the stipulations in the public contracts, as a result of the special situation created in the market during the year 2022, referring to market prices and construction cost…

COMPANIES AWARDED PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS THROUGH OPEN COMPETITION IN 2021

In this article we are covering the Companies that were awarded the highest value contracts in the Public Procurements, held by the Albanian state authorities during 2021. Data concerning all contracting procedures by tender, are available in Excel format released by the Public Procurement Agency.  We are listing and sorting companies by analyzing the weight that each contractor has in the total value procured during…

Businesses and Subcontractors in the Reconstruction Program; Exemption from Value Added Tax

The General Directorate of Taxes, pursuant to DCM no.143, dated 13.02.2020, “Procedures for issuing authorization to reconstruction entities and for exemption from value added tax on the supply of goods and services for the purposes of the reconstruction process”, has released such authorizations for economic entities contracted for the Reconstruction program or their subcontractors. The authorization confirms that the Company has no obligation to pay…

Public Procurement Procedures without competition in 2020 and 2021

Open Data Albania has done a short analysis on Public Procurement Procedures held in 2020 and 2021 without competition or open procedures. As such, we have taken into consideration tenders that were conducted with Restricted, local or international, procedures and Negotiated procurement procedures without prior publication of a contract notice.In this analysis, we have not considered Negotiated procurement procedures with prior announcement or Requests for…

Earthquake Reconstruction Program Business Companies Ranking by Value of Successful Offer

Open Data Albania is ranking the business companies announced as Successful Bidders in the Contracting Procedures for the Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Program. The data are part of the monitoring of Contracting through two databases, Contracting Reconstruction Program by Municipality and by the Albanian Development Fund ADF. The contracting procedure for the Reconstruction Program is based on a Law different from regular procurement legislation. Procedures are all…

Budget Revisions during the State of Natural Disasters, 2020-2021

Open Data Albania is conducting a research regarding the State Budget Revisions for the management of two natural disasters: the November 2019 Earthquake and the Covid-19 Pandemic. The purpose of this article is to record these events’ financial effects on the State Budget 2020 and 2021. The data for this article has been retrieved from the Ministry of Finance budget charts, which refer to the…

Successful Economic Operator in tenders Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Program Tenders, Ranked by Value as of October 2021

Followthemoney.Al is listing Businesses that have won contracts for the Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Program as of October 2021. The listing is done according to the value of the contract. Companies or Operators operate mainly in the construction sector. The post-earthquake Reconstruction Program is one of the main programs of the State Budget for the last two years. This Program aims to solve problems of housing, infrastructure…