The conditions for selecting the company that will manage the commercial spaces at the Chisinau International Airport were tightened, but this does not mean that the tender contest is rigged, said MP of the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) Radu Marian. According to the lawmaker, the government wants a serious investor to come to the Airport, not a phantom firm created overnight, IPN notes.
The commercial spaces at the Chisinau International Airport, which were previously managed by fugitive politician Ilan Shor, were put out for tender. MP Radu Marian said a potential investor will have to meet higher standards as the government aims to select a professional company that has management experience.
“We need serious companies at the Airport, not like the one based in Khabarovsk. Obviously, the requirements were toughened up. A tendering announcement with stricter conditions was issued so that we have serious investors at the Airport, not phantom firms affiliated with criminal groups. We must not forget that we are in a hybrid war in which all kinds of criminal groups with many affiliated companies and a lot of money are trying to interfere in this country, including, to seize particular facilities. Evidently, standards concerning tendering and other important things must be raised, but this does not mean that something is unclean or hidden, or that the tender contest is rigged,” PAS deputy chairman Radu Marian stated in the program “Resumé with Ileana Pirgaru” on RliveTV.
Radu Marian rejected the scenario of bid rigging and favoring of a single company. The reaction came after CUB chairman Igor Munteanu earlier drew attention to the fact that the requirements set out in the Tender Specifications openly favor the company “Lagardere”.
“Higher standards than in the past were set. Or do we want to have again companies founded overnight taking part in tender contests? We surely don’t want this. It goes to the Chisinau International Airport, a strategic facility, and we want serious companies to operate there. There is no serious indication that the tender contest is vitiated,” said the MP.
On Wednesday, representatives of the National Alternative Movement (MAN) filed a complaint to the National Anticorruption Center about possible violations in the tender contest to choose the company that will take over the management of commercial spaces at the Airport.
