The ABS company that has tendered millions of euros for cyber security complains that they have pirated e-Albanian

2025-08-22 17:34:48Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The ABS company that has tendered millions of euros for cyber security complains
The ABS company that has tendered millions of euros for cyber security complains that they have pirated e-Albanian

The Public Procurement Commission has faced an unprecedented situation, as the company Advanced Business Solutions has urgently sent a letter requesting the cancellation of the withdrawal from appeals for the tenders of the National Procurement Authority.

In the letter, the company with owners Geron Meçen says that the request to withdraw from the complaints was not made by it, but by someone else who pirated his account in e-Albania.

"Today, on 13.08.2025, we were informed before the fact that on 12.08.2025, unauthorized persons managed to interfere with our account in e-albania by uploading documents in the complaints section to your institution according to which it is declared "resignation of the complaint filed" for some procurement procedures," it is stated in the urgent letter that the companies Advanced Business Solutions and Datalog have sent to the Procurement Commission.

The ABS company that has tendered millions of euros for cyber security complains
ABS letter in the KPC

Advanced Business Solution and Datalog are in a fierce fight with the AKSHI. Until a few days ago, they had 4 large tenders of AKSHI in the appeal procedure to the Public Procurement Commission. But suddenly, on August 12, the requests of both companies for the withdrawal from the appeal of each of the tenders in the process appeared on the KPP website.

This decision aroused quite a bit of surprise in the IT market, as everyone was trying to understand what had happened, that Geron Meçe had withdrawn from the frontal war with AKSHI. But now the company says that it did not make the withdrawal.

Advanced Business Solutions has contracts for cyber security in several institutions of the Albanian state. But the company, which must maintain the integrity of the state's cyber infrastructure, has been hacked into its account in e-Albania.

Until two years ago, ABS was the main contractor of AKSHI, receiving billions of lek in tenders with compromised tenders and even secret procedures. But suddenly, in the second half of 2023 the company was stripped of all access to public funds. The place of ABS as the largest contractor in the tenders of AKSHI was taken by Ermal Beqiri's Soft & Solution.

Since then, Gerond Meçe's ABS has appealed almost every tender developed by AKSHI. The situation became so critical that it led to a complete blockade of the AKSHI and this year the Agency has not been able to close any procurement procedure, although it has tendered over 70 million euros. /Kapital.al


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