“Contracts were awarded to certain companies in the order of 500 million euros, without public tender and prices per Mw about double those contracted with Aenergy in 2016-2017”, details the company, referring to the hiring of the Portuguese company MCA, which benefited from a contract for the installation of photovoltaic panels and plants to generate 370 megawatts without tender.
The project was budgeted at 523 million euros and MCA managers describe it as “the largest public and renewable energy intervention program in Sub-Saharan Africa”. In the construction sector, Aenergy continues, there are companies that have signed government contracts worth over $ 1 billion, without any tender.
In a note sent to Public Television of Angola (TPA), the company that saw the contracts terminated unilaterally by the Angolan authorities, previous that the direct award or “simplified contracting” has been the preferred model, followed since 2017. “The Government does not use the public tender procedure”, he insists, observing the authorities’ appeal precisely to the argument of the lack of a public tender for the unilateral termination of the contract he had with the company.
Aenergy also recalls the fact that Public Television of Angola (TPA) applied a piece of misinformation about the company in the week following the presentation, in the North American court, of supporting documents on how the equipment that is “illegally detained and deposited in the custody of Igape was transported without legal authorization from Prodel-EP facilities in Camama to Lubango ”
