The Republic of Moldova is not a member of the European Union and the publication of intention and participation notices in the Official Journal of the European Union is thus possible only when European funds are allocated. This way, it is for now not possible to implement the law on government procurement that provides that notices of tender contests for projects financed with state budget funds should be published in the Official Journal. This is how the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure commented for IPN on the statements made by PPPDA vice president Alexandru Slusari.

According to the Ministry, such a response was received from the Tender Electronic Daily, which is a supplement to the EU Official Journal.

The Ministry noted that a notice of the intention of public procurement for works to rehabilitate, modernize and build priority public road sectors with financing planned in the 2020 state budget was published during January 9-15, 2020. Consequently, in accordance with the law on government procurement, a series of tender contests were announced through the electronic platform e-Tender, the notices being also published in the Public Procurement Bulletin.

A significant part of the road sectors for which public tender contests were initiated form part of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) and the intention to rehabilitate, modernize and build these was published in the Indicative TEN-T Investment Action Plan of the EaP.

In a news conference, the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” (PPPDA) asked Minister of Economy Anatol Usatyi to present within two days explanations why he didn’t place notices of tender contests for roads in the Official Journal of the European Union. According to the party’s vice president Alexandru Slusari, the minister was obliged to do this in accordance with the law on government procurement if the value of the government procurement contract is equal to or higher than 90 million lei.