Not even four years since the then Public Works Administration announced requests to review the licenses of certain companies that worked on phallic projects, on the basis of which tenders for works were published, the epilogue of those procedures is not known, while in the meantime the price of subsequent works for only a few such projects contracted for at least five million euros, the Action for Social Justice reported.
"In October 2020, at the time when the first post-DPS government was being negotiated, the Public Works Administration, which today is called the Capital Projects Administration, announced that they would request a review of the licenses of several companies that worked on project documentation or audits for about a dozen projects, which were found to be phallic and that this leads, as it was announced at the time, to the need to publish new tenders for additional works.
One such tender concerns the construction of the Science and Technology Park in Podgorica, for which the project was carried out by Danilovgrad's 'Ing Invest'. In March 2020, Podgorica's 'Novi Volvox' got the job, for a price of around eight million euros, and in the following years, additional works were contracted for another two million euros. In the middle of this year, the project was officially opened," the statement of this NGO states.
It is added that "Ing Invest" from Danilovgrad also worked on a project for the construction of a police complex in Zlatica, which is a job that "Čelebić" from Podgorica won in October 2019 for around seven million euros. A year later, it was announced in the media that a tender for additional works worth around 800 euros had been launched.
"The same company was the designer for the Home for the Elderly in Podgorica. In October 2017, the contract with the Podgorica company 'Fidija' was concluded for 8,8 million euros, and a series of additional works followed in the following years, and public information shows that it is about a value of at least half a million euros.
The controversial investment of the Football Stadium in Cetinje is also one of those that was pointed out to be built on the basis of a phallic project, and the stadium was not completed for a full seven years, even though the construction deadline was three years. The designer was the Podgorica company 'Studio K', the foundation stone was laid in November 2017 by the then Prime Minister Duško Marković, the Mayor of Cetinje Aleksandar Bogdanović and the President of the Football Association of Montenegro (FSCG) Dejan Savićević.
The price of the work was agreed at 8,8 million euros with the company Erlang from Podgorica, the largest part of the money was to be allocated from the capital budget, part of it was to be financed by the Capital of Cetinje, and part by FSCG. In the first part of this year, additional jobs for this investment of around 1,6 million euros were contracted," Action for Social Justice said.
Additional works also cause delays in the completion of work, and in all previous cases it is not known whether the issue of liability or potential compensation was raised, the new non-governmental organization points out.
"Four years ago, the Public Works Administration announced the re-examination of licenses for several other projects that it judged to be phallic and for which subsequent works were also contracted. Among the design firms or auditors for disputed projects, 'Arhinjinženjering', 'Decom Montenegro' were mentioned at the time. ', 'Europrojekt', 'Urbi pro', 'Civil Engineering'...", the announcement states.
Last month Action for Social Justice started a project related to the monitoring of public procurements for capital investments, on the basis of which specific case studies will be prepared and processed by the competent state authorities, with the aim not only of improving the situation in the field of public procurements for capital investments, which are among the most sensitive to corruption, but also raising the question of the responsibility of decision makers.
In this sense, among other things, case studies will also be submitted to the National Council for the Fight against Corruption, said this NGO.
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