The technical criteria are the details where the "devil" hides whenever someone has decided in advance to give the tender to "someone", even if this is an SP MP.
It seems that the circumstances surrounding the development of the tender with the object "Purchase of reagent kits and medical materials for blood astrupogram meter analyses", with a limit fund of 83,904,000 lek, organized by the Centralized Purchasing Operator, are sailing precisely in these waters.
As can be seen from the documents, five companies have shown interest in this procedure, while four of them have submitted bids.
However, the Centralized Purchasing Operator has declared the winner the company with the most expensive bid, precisely the one behind which the SP MP, Vasil Llajo, is hiding, based on technical criteria, which are often used like a rubber band that is stretched or pulled according to the whims of the managers who manage the tenders.
More specifically, operators such as KRIJON, MEDFAU, EVITA and SWISSMED were in the competition.
The data shows that the company SWISSMED submitted the highest bid of 71,484,000 lek, while the second lowest bidder, MEDFAU, offered 63,480,000 lek.
The difference between them amounts to about 90 thousand euros. But the problem does not stop at the money, it even starts here.
For all other bidders, OBP found a "loophole" in the technical criteria to disqualify them one by one, until the turn came for SWISSMED, which has benefited over the past few years from around 22 million euros in payments from the state budget, a fact that raises questions about this selection.
SWISSMED is registered in the name of a lady named Argita Bojaxhiu, but according to the information provided, behind it stands the SP MP, Vasil Llajo, who transferred the shares on paper to the lady a few days before taking office.
Llajo is also the de facto owner of Intermedica.
From the documents consulted by skyweb.al, it appears that the contract for the sale of Swissmed shares by Llajo and Mrs. Bojaxhiu does not provide for immediate payment, but rather in installments, which means that the buyer will repay the value through the company's own profits in the future.
It's like buying an apartment for next to nothing and the owner allows you to pay for it from the rent you'll receive over the years.
This fact is seen as an element that also explains how and why all other bids were disqualified, paving the way for the company in question.
This fact seems to have been noted even by the companies participating in the tender.
Two of them, MEDFAU and EVITA, have addressed the Public Procurement Commission, requesting the annulment of the decision and the restoration of the procedure under legal conditions.
Skyweb.al has consulted the complaints of these companies, which have bid significantly less than SWISSMED and have raised serious claims about the way the technical criteria were assessed by the Bid Evaluation Committee.
Both requests are already registered with the KPP and are expected to be reviewed, while the case in question is being seen as a precedent that could end up in SPAK, regarding how a public procedure can be oriented towards a predetermined outcome.
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