{"id":7361,"date":"2016-04-11T16:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T16:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ais.al\/new\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2016-04-16T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T13:03:00","slug":"how-have-municipalities-done-their-tenders-contracts-with-direct-negotiations-and-investment-tenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/how-have-municipalities-done-their-tenders-contracts-with-direct-negotiations-and-investment-tenders\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:sq-->How have Municipalities done their tenders! Contracts with Direct Negotiations and Investment Tenders<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:sq-->Open Data Albania has inquired into the number of tender procedures and fund limits for public procurement announced by 61 local government units (municipalities) following the recent administrative-territorial division. The research article is based on the database of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openprocurement.al\/sq\/tender\/list\">Transparent Procurement<\/a> portal. The portal contains information about every public procurement procedure for each of the 61 new local government units from July 2015 onwards.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Public Procurement<\/span><\/strong> (total number and value). During this period, there has been a total number of <strong><em>1290<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>procedures<\/em><\/strong> announced for a fund limit of <strong><em>92 billion <\/em><\/strong>(new) <strong><em>lek\u00eb<\/em><\/strong>. Each of these public procurement procedures is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openprocurement.al\/sq\/tender\/list\">listed<\/a> on the Transparent Procurement portal, under the Tenders section. <strong>The Municipality of Tirana<\/strong> is the municipality with the highest fund limit for procurements in this period. Tirana has announced <strong><em>129 tenders<\/em><\/strong> with a value of <strong><em>2.28 billion lek\u00eb<\/em><\/strong>. Tirana is followed by the Municipality of <strong><em>Durr\u00ebs<\/em><\/strong> with <strong><em>50 procedures<\/em><\/strong> and a fund limit of <strong><em>931.79 million<\/em><\/strong> lek\u00eb. The Municipality of <strong><em>Fier<\/em><\/strong> comes third by its fund limit. This municipality has announced <strong><em>59 tenders<\/em><\/strong> for a fund limit of <strong><em>899.85 million<\/em><\/strong> lek\u00eb. The list of the <strong><em>10 municipalities<\/em><\/strong> with the highest fund limit includes also the municipalities of Kor\u00e7a, Saranda, Berat, Divjaka, Gjirokastra, Kavaja, and Librazhd. The list of the <strong><em>10 municipalities<\/em><\/strong> with the lowest fund limit for tenders includes <strong><em>Ura Vajgurore, Mirdita, P\u00ebrrenjasi, Delvina, Libohova, Fush\u00eb \u2013 Arr\u00ebzi, Pogradeci, Tepelena, Dropulli, Memaliaj, and Pusteci<\/em><\/strong>. The article with the Table and Visualizations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.data.al\/sq\/lajme\/lajm\/id\/1723\/Prokurime-Publike-sipas-Bashkive-shpallur-korrik-2015---prill-2016\"><strong>Public Procurement by Municipalities<\/strong><\/a><strong>, announced during July 2015 \u2013 April 2016.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Direct Negotiations<\/span><\/strong> refer to public procurement procedures through which the contracting authority selects the economic operators itself and negotiates the contract terms with one or more of them. The decision to apply such procedure must be grounded and justified by conditions that force the authority to act in this way. Being a type of public procurement without any competition, the Direct Negotiations carry the risk of a high exposure to fund misuse. In total, this period has seen <strong><em>150 public contracts <\/em><\/strong>finalized through direct negotiations. The fund for these public procurement procedures is <strong><em> 83 million lek\u00eb<\/em><\/strong>. Each of these public procurement procedures is <a href=\"http:\/\/prokurimetransparente.al\/sq\/tender\/list\/proc_type\/2?\">listed<\/a> in the Transparent Procurement portal, under the <strong>Tender with Negotiations<\/strong> section. Municipalities of Tirana, Elbasan, Kamza, Vau i Dej\u00ebs, Rrogozhina, Kor\u00e7a, and Lezha are the municipalities with the highest number of direct negotiations. In this sense, extension of contracts are also considered direct negotiations the procuring authorities do this (extend contracts) every time they face expiry of timeframes of purchases, or recognizes the need for additional works or services. Only <em>37 out of 61 municipalities<\/em> have applied the procedure of direct negotiations. Direct negotiations for <strong><em>more than<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>5 million lek\u00eb<\/em><\/strong> were applied by the municipalities of Elbasan, Tirana, Maliq, Konispol, Vau i Dej\u00ebs, Rrogozhina, and Kamza. You may find the article by reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.data.al\/sq\/lajme\/lajm\/id\/1725\/Kontrata-me-Negocim-te-Drejtperdrejte-sipas-Bashkive-te-shpallura-nga-20-Korrik-2015-deri-me-7-Prill-2016\"><strong>Contracts with Direct Negotiations<\/strong><\/a> <strong>by Municipalities, announced from 20 July 2015 until 7 April 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Public Investments (tenders).<\/span><\/strong> This period marked a total of <strong><em>269 procurements<\/em><\/strong> for public works for a value of <strong>07 billion lek\u00eb<\/strong>. It results that <strong><em>68%<\/em><\/strong> of the fund limit tendered by the municipalities during this time period was intended for investments, the rest to supplies of goods and services. The figures include only investments tendered by the municipalities themselves, and not public works tendered by the Albanian Development Fund or central government units that correspond with investments in their territories. Each of these public procurement procedures is <a href=\"http:\/\/prokurimetransparente.al\/sq\/tender\/list\/cat_id\/3?\">listed<\/a> with the Transparent Procurement portal, under the category of public Works, using the search filter \u2018type of contract\u2019. The Municipality of <a href=\"http:\/\/prokurimetransparente.al\/sq\/tender\/list\/inst_id\/33\/cat_id\/3?\">Kor\u00e7a<\/a> and that of <a href=\"http:\/\/prokurimetransparente.al\/sq\/tender\/list\/inst_id\/39\/cat_id\/3?\">Fier<\/a> have the highest fund limits for public works. They are followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/prokurimetransparente.al\/sq\/tender\/list\/inst_id\/20\/cat_id\/3?\">Tirana<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/prokurimetransparente.al\/sq\/tender\/list\/inst_id\/16\/cat_id\/3?\">Durr\u00ebsi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/prokurimetransparente.al\/sq\/tender\/list\/inst_id\/59\/cat_id\/3?\">Saranda<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/prokurimetransparente.al\/sq\/tender\/list\/inst_id\/43\/cat_id\/3?\">Berati<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/prokurimetransparente.al\/sq\/tender\/list\/inst_id\/43\/cat_id\/3?\">Divjaka<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/prokurimetransparente.al\/sq\/tender\/list\/inst_id\/43\/cat_id\/3?\">Gjirokastra<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/prokurimetransparente.al\/sq\/tender\/list\/inst_id\/24\/cat_id\/3?\">Librazhdi<\/a>. Two municipalities, <strong><em>Fush\u00eb Arr\u00ebzi<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Pogradeci<\/em><\/strong> have not yet realized any procurement of public works, depriving their administrative units of the benefits and economic effects of investments. Thus, the four municipalities with the <strong><em>minimum<\/em><\/strong> funds used for Public Procurement are <strong><em>Tepelena, Kuk\u00ebsi, Pusteci <\/em><\/strong><em>and<strong> Memaliaj. <\/strong><\/em>The article can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.data.al\/sq\/lajme\/lajm\/id\/1724\/Investime-Prokurime-per-Pune-Publike-sipas-Bashkive-shpallur-korrik-2015---prill-2016\"><strong>Investments, Procurement for Public Works<\/strong><\/a> <strong>by Municipalities, announced during July 2015 \u2013 April 2016.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The portal intends to make the information about tenders and public procurements of the 61 municipalities in the country transparent and easily traceable. Using search filters, procurements can be categorized by their types of contracts, like Public Procurement (investments), Supply of Goods (purchase), Services, etc. in addition, each tender can be categorized by the number of participants, and an assessment of the difference between the fund limit available and the value of the winning offer. Afterwards, information is updated by the number of participants in the competition, the winner, the status of the project, the contract term, and payments according to the Treasury Transactions. <a href=\"http:\/\/ais.al\/new\/\">AIS<\/a> is the organization that implements this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openprocurement.al\/sq\/index\/project\">project.<\/a> This organization promotes Open Data for Albania.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Data Albania has inquired into the number of tender procedures and fund limits for public procurement announced by 61 local government units (municipalities) following the recent administrative-territorial division. The research article is based on the database of the Transparent Procurement portal. 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