A tender is announced for the construction of “George Bush” square in Pristina, with a price exceeding 18 million euros.

The Municipality of Prishtina has announced a tender for the construction of “George Bush” Square in the capital. The tender announcement was published on Friday, January 30, 2025, and the value of this tender is expected to be 18 million, 162 thousand, and 896 euros. According to the announcement published on the e-Procurement platform, for the construction of this square, the group of economic operators “Salillari; Gjini Construction Sh.P.K; Hidroterm Sh.P.K” has been recommended. The planned date for contract signing, if there are no complaints, is February 5, 2025. Four operators have applied for the implementation of this project. The duration of this tender is a maximum of 360 days, as described in the tender file. The procurement procedure for the construction of “George Bush” Square was suspended on September 12, 2024, due to a complaint from an economic operator to the Procurement Review Body, a measure provided by law. The Municipality of Prishtina itself had announced this through a statement released to the media, following reports that the process had been suspended due to legal violations. “The submission of this complaint to the PRB by the economic operator does not imply a procedural or legal violation or a halt to procurement activity, but is an automatic measure provided by law regardless of whether the complaint is justified or not. So, whenever an economic operator files a complaint with the PRB, procurement activity is automatically suspended. This is provided for in Article 112, paragraph 1, of the Public Procurement Law,” the Municipality of Prishtina had stated through a statement released on September 12, 2024. Meanwhile, procedures for the construction of “George Bush” Square near the Cathedral, which will extend to “Zahir Pajaziti” Square, had begun in August 2023. According to data from the Regulatory Commission for Public Procurement (RCPP), the cost of this project is expected to reach 18 million and 400 thousand euros. The creation of a square at the Cathedral has been part of Prime Minister Përparim Rama’s government program, which he has stated several times is only the first phase, as the plan is for the square to be extended in the second phase to the Main Post Office, which then connects to the Mosque in Dardania which is under construction, and gradually continue to the flagpole roundabout in Ulpiana. The creation of the square at the Cathedral was also mentioned during the tenure of former mayor Shpend Ahmeti, as part of Prishtina’s mobility plan. The mobility plan developed by Mott MacDonald in 2019 is a 12-year plan that includes several reforms in the city’s infrastructure, including cycling paths, new road layouts, public transport reform, including bus terminals, etc. https://kallxo.com/komuna/projekti-per-sheshin-xhorxh-bush-pritet-te-kushtoje-mbi-18-milione-euro/ *Note: The article was edited on February 1, 2025, at 10:43.*

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