Peder Blomberg, SIGMA consultant, will lead a workshop on the use of framework agreements in public procurement at the Rogner Hotel Tirana on 24 & 25 March 2015.

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Public Procurement Agency (PPA) and SIGMA
WORKSHOP
How to Award and Use Framework Agreements
Practical and Operational Guidance
24 and 25 March 2015, Tirana
Purpose:
The use of framework agreements has become an important and growing instrument within EU public
procurement. The application of the instrument is regulated in the EU Directives and generally
implemented into national legislation of the member states. Despite the fact that rules on framework
agreements have been introduced in Albania, the practical use of the instrument is limited. The PPA and
SIGMA has therefore agreed to take actions aiming at encouraging a wider use of framework agreements
within the Albanian administration. Firstly, the Government has adopted a new decision no 914 (29
December 2014) on Public Procurement Rules in order to clarify the rules on the award of framework
agreements. Secondly, PPA has issued an explanatory Guideline No 6 dated 27 January 2015 on the
application of the COM Decision. Thirdly, SIGMA has prepared a manual with a practical guideline and a
checklist for the award and use of framework agreements.
The objective of the workshops is therefore to familiarise contracting entities with the new set of
regulations and guidance documentation concerning framework agreements in order to encouraging a
wider use of framework agreements.
Organiser: SIGMA and the Public Procurement Agency (PPA)
Venue: Rogner Hotel, Tirana

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Format of the Workshop: The focus will be on presentations made PPA and SIGMA expert team
followed by dialogue and discussions in an informal manner.
Participants: Management and public procurement officials from the main contracting entities, key
procurement institutions and management and staff of the PPA.
Public Procurement Agency: Mr. Eduard Ahmeti, Director and Mrs. Reida Kashta, Deputy Director
External experts: Mr. Peder Blomberg, former senior adviser, SIGMA, and Mrs. Ivancica Franjkovic,
Acting Deputy Head of CPO, Croatia
Moderator of the workshop: Peder Blomberg
Programme (identical agenda both days)
09.15 - 09.30 Welcome
09.30 – 10.30 The new regulatory framework for framework agreements in Albania- COM
Decision and the PPA Explanatory Guideline
Presentation by Reida Kashta, Public Procurement Agency
10.30 - 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 - 11.45
11.45 - 12.30
12.30 - 13.15
13.15 – 14.15
Presentation of the Manual on Framework Agreements
Peder Blomberg
Key steps in the award and managing of framework agreements - the Croatian
example
Ivana Franjkovic
Lunch
How to plan and award specific categories of framework agreements (examples:
Air tickets, office supplies, IT- equipment and others)
Ivana Franjkovic, Peder Blomberg and Reida Kashta
14.15 - 15.00
15.00 – 15.15
Q & A
Moderator: Peder Blomberg
Next steps?
- Simultaneous translation for Albanian and English -