The same economic operator, the same service, but prices of up to 132 thousand and 650 percent higher in the Mitrovica municipality. Comparison of two project drafting contracts, one linked in 2024, when Bedri Hamza led the municipality, and the other in 2026, under Faton Peci’s leadership, highlights remarkable differences in prices for positions with the same description.
Insander newspaper
The South Mitrovica municipality, led by Faton Peci, on 20 June this year has signed contracts to draft capital investment projects.
This tender winner has been announced as economic operatorINFRA TEK ) Florije JahajOh.
But this is not the first time that the same company receives contracts from the Mitrovica municipality for services of this kind.
A contract entitled The Arbitment and Oversight of Capital Investment Projects had been linked to the time of Bedri Hamza’s direction in 2024. Even then, the winner was the same company. IFRA TEK Florije Jahhaji.
However, comparison of the two contracts’ parameters underscores considerable differences in the prices of positions, even though the description of services has remained the same.
In the 2024 contract, the value of 120 thousand euros was set aside for infrastructure facilities, while in the 2026 contract, this figure is estimated at 210 thousand euros.
Even greater differences are seen in hydrotechnical objects. In the preliminary contract, 120 thousand euros was envisioned, while in the new contract that figure has reached 270 thousand euros.
2024 contract
2026 contract
An increase of 132 thousand and 650 percent of prices
Comparing prices for the same positions shows that in some cases the prices contracted in 2026 are higher than those in 2024.
The biggest difference is in bridge design.
For this service, in the 2024 – square – metre contract was only 0.12 euros. While in the new contract, bound in 2026, the same position is estimated at 159.30 euros per square metre.
So from 12 cents to 159 euros and 30 cents for the same measure. This represents growth of 132 thousand and 650 percent compared to the previous contract.
Another position that notes the great difference is the design of a health object’s renovation.
Even in this case, the price per square meter has changed significantly. In 2024 it was 0.12 euros, while in the 2026 contract it reached 23.60 euros.
This means an increase of about 19 thousand and 567 percent in proportion to the price contracted two years ago.
Price hikes are also noted in the design of educational objects
For design of schools, nests, and gardens as new objects, the price in 2024 was 2.36 euros per square metre. In the 2026 contract, the price has increased to 18.88 euros per square metre.
The difference is 16.52 euros per square meter, or 700 percent more than in the preliminary contract.
Even for the repair of such objects, prices have changed. Out of 9.44 euros per square metre the price in 2024, the new contract has increased to 21.24 euros.
This represents a 125 – percent increase.
Road design and protective walls also expand
Price differences are also noted in the positions surrounding road infrastructure design.
For the four – lane road design, in the 2024 contract the price was 1,18 euros per square metre. While in the 2026 contract, the same position was raised to 11.78 euros.
This translates into an increase of about 898 percent.
Meanwhile, for two lanes, the price has changed from 4.98 euros to 6.96 euros per square metre.
The increase is also in the design of protective walls. In the 2024 contract, the price was 0.012 euros per square metre, while in the new contract it reached 1.77 euros.
Although this increase is smaller than other positions, the price for the same service has multiplied in the 2026 contract.
In terms of these differences in prices, concerns have also raised Mitrovica’s Communist Parliament asblist, Igballe Ismaili.
In her response, she has requested clarifications for the reasons that have led to such major price changes for the same services and the same measures.
What has changed that prices for the same service and for the same measure have reached these levels, besides governance?
The newspaper Insider has tried to get answers from the company IFRA TEK Florije Jahhaji, but no answer.
Source Layer: Insander