Tenders in 2022 were appealed for 174 million euros, most of them for the evaluation of offers

2023-05-25 13:07:00, Aktualitet CNA

Tenders in 2022 were appealed for 174 million euros, most of them for the

Economic operators that participate in competitions with public funds have continued to have reservations mainly for the phase when institutions evaluate the offers.

In at least 61 percent of cases, complaints come precisely at this stage for the Public Procurement Commission, referring to the 2022 annual report. The limit fund of all complained procedures is calculated at 20 billion ALL or about 174 million euros.

"Out of 6,494 unique procedures published in the Electronic Procurement System (SPE) during 2022, for public procurements with a total value of 170,200,854,721 ALL, the number of unique complaints submitted to the Public Procurement Commission is 532, which reach the value of 20,412,194,409 ALL.

In total, unique complaints were submitted to the Public Procurement Commission for 12% of the budget procured at the national level or 8.19% of the unique procurement procedures published in SPE in 2022.

Out of 794 (seven hundred and ninety-four) complaints, 308 of them or about 39%, are complaints filed for objections to the tender documents and 486 complaints or about 61% of them, are complaints filed for the bid evaluation phase. the report says.

But despite the complaints made by the business, the Public Procurement Commission has not found it reasonable to accept them in all cases.

According to the figures from 794 complaints in total, as well as 70 complaints carried over from 2021, 343 (three hundred and forty-three) complaints were received, 335 (three hundred and thirty-five) were not received, 3 complaints were not considered; the case for 89 was closed, and the administrative procedure for 39 of them was completed.

The report estimates that during the year 2022, from the total number of complaints examined (complaints from 2022, as well as complaints from 2021 for which the Commission has expressed its decision in 2022), for 492 of them which are related to the evaluation phase, with a limit fund of 17.9 billion ALL without VAT, it turns out that:

"After the decision-making of the Public Procurement Commission after the exercise of review tools, the administrative appeal by the economic operators, by submitting the complaints to the Public Procurement Commission, the KPP after examining the complaints, from the decision-making of the latter, has saving the state budget, the value of about 115.9 million ALL without VAT, calculated as the difference between the qualified offer from the decision-making of the contracting authorities and the economic operators who complained, whose complaint was accepted by the Public Procurement Commission.

In relation to the decision-making in the bid evaluation phase, it results that 33% of the complaints reviewed in this phase were accepted by the Public Procurement Commission, compared to 55% of the complaints received in the tender documents phase" it is stated in the report of KPP./Monitor.al