Concession for measuring instruments/ Report: Deficiency from the award to the implementation of the contract

2024-11-14 09:30:55, Aktualitet CNA

Concession for measuring instruments/ Report: Deficiency from the award to the

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The analysis of six years of activity regarding the beginning of a concession but also the implementation of the contract have come to the conclusion that it is accompanied by numerous deficiencies.

The Supreme State Audit published the report of an audit carried out at the Ministry of Finance "On the concession of the service of legal control of measuring instruments, through the verification of fuel and liquefied gas dispensing instruments and the approval of the bonus in the competitive procedure that given to the company", for the period 09.12.2016 to 31.12.2022.

Referring to this report, the auditors come to the conclusion that regarding compliance there were deficiencies mainly in the concession award procedure and the implementation of the concession contract, as a violation of the regulatory framework of the field (concessions) for the concession award of this service, as it was made through the proposal of without asking, which does not include granting a concession in one of the fields defined in the regulatory framework of the field.

"Giving the service of verifying fuel dispensers with a concession has negatively affected the effectiveness and efficiency of the investments made in the General Directorate of Metrology, for the purchase of autolaboratories and equipment necessary to perform this service, where 63,975,994 ALL were invested .

Deficiencies were found in the drafting of the concession contract, not reflecting the terms of the DST. Deficiencies were also found in the implementation of the contract by the concessionaire as well as by the institutions that support the irregularities found", the report states.

Specifically, the KLSH report brings to attention that in the examination of the documentation of the concession award procedure file, it was found that the feasibility study submitted by the concessionaire contains incorrect data in the calculation of annual income, which automatically affect the NPV value ( net present value), indicator which serves to make the decision to make the investment or not.

"The feasibility study prepared by the concession awarding commission contains inaccurate and unconfirmed data from official sources.

The commission, in order to make the concession project feasible, has added as annual income to the concessionaire, the income from VAT that will be provided by the provision of the service by the concessionaire, as well as the situation has been brought to unequal conditions with the comparator of the public sector, i.e. the provision of the service by the DPM, where the latter did not recognize any income for the state budget, on the contrary, they added as a cost VAT that the DPM did not collect, while the DPM is not the institution responsible for the collection of VAT.

The concession awarding commission does not contain a specialist in the field, this legal obligation to be fulfilled", the report states.

The auditors have found that in the summary report addressed to the holder of the CA, there are missing elements that give the document legal power, specifically the seal of the institution is missing and as such it does not prove the approval by the holder of the CA.

"In the opinion given by the General Directorate of Budget and Public Debt, through MEMO no. no, dated 27.08.2018, does not reflect the opinion of the above directorate on the impact that the granting of a concession may have in terms of the budget deficit and eventual contingent liabilities", underlines KLSH.

The report finds a series of elements in a presentation of 178 pages making, among other things, the relevant recommendations for the institutions. Currently the concession for the control of measuring instruments through the verification of fuel and liquefied gas dispensing instruments. The holder of the contract is the concessionaire company Noa Inspect shpk./ Monitor.al