{"id":11526,"date":"2021-03-16T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T09:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ndiqparate.al\/?p=11526"},"modified":"2021-03-16T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T09:49:52","slug":"public-contracting-reform-ais-recommendations-for-programs-of-the-electoral-subject-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndiqparate.al\/?p=11526&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Public Contracting Reform, AIS recommendations for programs of the electoral subject 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following years of monitoring and risk assessment in public procurement in the areas of public health, local government, and national infrastructure, AIS has drafted 7 proposals for the reform of public procurement and contracting. These recommendations will be proposed to the main parties in elections, suggesting their involvement in their electoral program and promises. The recommendations were drafted in the framework of the Governance for Change Forum<\/a>, Proposals by civil society organized by Co-Plan <\/a>and partners. The proposals will be officially handed over to the political parties running in the 2021 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Public Procurements and Contracting, Recommendations for Public Procurement Reform<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 30 % of the tenders in sectors like Health, National Infrastructure, and Local Government Units have marked a high risk of irregularities in procedures over the last 3 to 5 years. Lack of competition, disqualification of Economic Operators with cost-effective bids, and finally the frequent cancellations of procedures are indications of a large room for clientelism and abuse of procured funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The situation is even more critical in the case of Contracting being done through Special Laws without procurement, tenders, or secret contracting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another major issue with procurement in the country, with serious consequences for public  contracting and tenders, is the lack of control over the integrity of the contractual partners, when Contractors are Business Companies, whose Origin of Capital, or Origin of the Controlling Package, is in a country with a commercial register of shell<\/em> companies, a register, where individual owners are not declared, and where confidentiality is preserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In such cases, in addition to the typical irregularities, we face the risk of contracting companies that are in a conflict of interest or subject to laundering money generated from crime or corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The table above is based on, and illustrated with data from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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