And as for the so-called circular road - which recently adorns the place where the streets of Blaž Jovanović (Block V) and Meša Selimović (between Block V and Block VI) in Podgorica intersect - one could talk about it at length and at length - at length and at length, believe me - but let's focus on the point anyway.
The bottom line is that from August 3 - when the news was published on the official website of the Capital City (podgorica.me) that the construction of the mentioned circular road had begun - until about a month ago, when the works were completed successfully and ahead of schedule (deadline was November of the current year) - every morning woke up the so-called construction machinery, not the cheerful song of tiny nightingales, nor the babbling of a clear stream. Every morning, at the crack of dawn - including weekends, of course - I was woken up by two excavators: one with a plug-in pneumatic hammer (picker) and the other - a shovel - which was throwing broken pieces of asphalt layer and concrete sidewalks into the dump truck.
And that's exactly why, somewhere in the middle of August, in desperation, I began to slap pogorica.me up and down, all in the hope of digging up documents from which I could get accurate and precise information about everything - starting from the assumption that some kind of decision preceded the start of construction , and immediately after the so-called open public procurement procedure - and everything in order, up to the so-called construction contract - and eventual confirmation of the contract, i.e. giving consent to the contract by the Assembly of the Capital City of Podgorica (almost written by the Podgorica Assembly).
So it says: Public procurement - Acts/ Public invitations/ Decisions/ Contracts/ Reports - Public procurement. Come on, I said let's slap a little on that Decision. So it says: Decisions for shopping/ Decisions for tender/ Notification of the outcome of the low value procurement procedure/ Notification of the outcome of the urgent procurement procedure/ Notification of the outcome of the simple procurement procedure. Come on, I said, let's slap a little on that Decision for the tender - it seems to me that it is the most logical step - and the decisions opened up for me: Year, he says, 2020, concluding with the Year 2015. So we have: Year 2020/ Decision for the tender no. 01 - concluding with the Tender Decision no. 40 - with a note that the Decision for tender no. 42 is located immediately after the Decision for tender no. 32, and in front of the Decision for tender no. 39.
The Pannonian sailor Balašević would say "too much sleep and too little sleep". I would prefer - and you would also prefer, I have no doubt - that every Saturday I interpret for you one of the most beautiful songs sung in honor of the most pure virgin of Architecture, our mother - glory and mercy to her. Something on the variant: The most beautiful houses in Montenegro and the world. But if we take into account the fact that we - and we as a local profession and we as a society here, as a whole - are far and too far from beautiful songs - then my conscience still tells me to deal with the system, should I not also the public and the people who will soon, let's hope, take over the levers of the system - pointed out the necessity of correcting systemic deficiencies and irregularities, and in the name of creating true preconditions for the mentioned, wonderful poems...
Or, what would you say Boney M: Now how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
OK, we have Decision for tender no. 35 - Lot 13 (from July 22, 2020), please, it says: "... in the process of deciding on the selection of the most favorable offer according to tender documentation number: 35/20 of June 22, 2020 for the procurement of goods - of office furniture for the needs of organizational units of the Capital City by lots: Lot 13: procurement of office furniture for the needs of the chief city architect, on the proposal of the commission for opening and evaluating bids, makes a/Decision/ on suspending the public procurement procedure" - and also says, "for reasons that no offer was submitted".
I forgot, at that moment, about all my troubles - because nothing, you will admit, can be compared to the devastating fact that nobody in the state of Montenegro - glory and mercy - found it appropriate to respond to Fić's desires with an offer. If we know that child Fićko has been performing the duties of GGA for almost two years, then we have no choice but to seriously scratch our heads both as a profession and as individuals. So I ran, the faster the better, to the website of the Ministry of Finance/Directorate for Public Procurement Policy (ujn.gov.me) - where I found that the tender documents are, most likely, uploaded in the order in which decisions (solutions) are made - with the remark that - when, specifically, we are talking about tenders backed by GGPG - tender documentation numbers are not entered - which somewhat complicates the search. Nevertheless, with superhuman efforts, I dug up an entry from July 29 of the current year, titled: The capital city of Podgorica/Tender documentation/Office furniture for the needs of the GGPG organizational units by party. There I was informed that the "estimated value of the public procurement in euros including VAT: 43.750,00" - which is not a ridiculous sum - with the caveat that, from this perspective, on June 22 of the current year there were more urgent matters than the acquisition of furniture (Snap snap, grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more).
So he says: Lot 13. Procurement of office furniture for the needs of the Chief City Architect - the aforementioned Fićko - 1.100 euros. For the sake of comparison, we have Lot 9. Procurement of office furniture for the needs of the Secretariat for Transport - 10.000 euros. Or Party 10. Procurement of office furniture for the needs of JU for accommodation, rehabilitation and resocialization of users of psychoactive substances - 850 euros, so, I would say, Fić's 1.100 euros is a reasonable sum.
It wasn't difficult for me to open the specific tender documentation, where I dug up the "technical characteristics or specifications of the public procurement item" - Lot 13. (child Fićko) - and I was informed that the child flipped through the IKEA catalog and ordered his dad Dombi to buy, respectively: office table, two pieces - "Finnvard" legs (goats) or similar (IKEA in Belgrade - 4.000 dinars per piece, four pieces = 16.000 dinars) and a 5 cm thick white veneered chipboard plate (wow!); drawer with six drawers "Alex" or similar, one pc. (IKEA BG - 9.999 dinars); "Alex" table, two pcs. (IKEA BG - 16.999 dinars per piece, two pieces = 33.998); Fjällbo shelves, two pieces (IKEA BG - 12.999 dinars per piece, two pieces = 25.998) - which, all together, is 85.995 dinars, or 750 euros (115 dinars/euro) + two and two table tops, dimensions 180X90, which should not be over 150 euros, both = 900 euros. And another 200 euros for the man to transfer the goods from BG to PG - exactly 1.100 euros...
I doubt that anyone will (ever) give a sufficient answer to the question: why did rock'n'roll fail? - or to the question: why did Yugoslavia fall apart - but it is more than obvious why the DPS failed in the last elections. Well, because - at the most critical moment - the child Fićko was busy furnishing his office with office furniture - convinced that the victory of DPS in the elections was quite certain. Instead of being...
It's easy to be smart today...
I shoot...
Continued in the next, or in one of the following issues.
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