TIRANA, July 31/ATA/-“The reform we have undertaken with public procurement procedures is important, dynamic and is in need of constant improvement”, said on Tuesday Minister of Finance and Economy Arben Ahmetaj.
During a press conference, Minister Ahmetaj referred to the U.S. State Department report on business climate in Albania saying that, “There are certainly problems and issues to get improved with venues of doing business in Albania”.
The improvement is indispensability in the process of implementing our governance agenda, said he. “The State Department rightfully draws the attention to the public procurements and provides a recent statistics on reduction of the percentage of negotiations without declaration, which has fallen into 8% and represents only 3% of the total value”, said the minister.
In regard to management of contracts, Ahmetaj said that, “The report refers to contracts on the roads to show what kinds of procurements were previously made”./a.g/p.s./
