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The public procurement working group meeting at Ungheni City Hall, where the streets to be repaired with the 10 million lei municipal bond funds were selected. A road project is displayed on screen; procurement documents are spread on the table.
LOCAL

9.6 million lei for 5 streets: Ungheni sells out its municipal bonds, procurement is open

All 10,000 municipal bonds issued by Ungheni — at 1,000 lei each — were fully subscribed within days of the public offering opening on August 10. On August 26, a working group of municipal councilors from all factions selected 5 streets — 2.5 kilometers, 23,000 square meters — and launched the procurement: the 4 lots, worth a total of 9.61 million lei, are now listed on MTender. The city hall's announcement names the streets, and the procurement documents on MTender also show the estimated cost per lot.

Ion Calmis·27 August 2026· News
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Infographic with two groups of bars drawn to the same scale: above, the energy-efficiency procurements of public institutions in Ungheni raion, led by public lighting; below, their energy bill over the same period, dominated by electricity and heat.
LOCAL

19.16 million lei on energy in the schools and town halls of Ungheni raion. On audits, 74,500

Ungheni Raion Council signed the cooperation memorandum with the LEEN Moldova programme on 30 July. Public procurement data supply the figures: 19.16 million lei of energy contracted by the raion's town halls, lyceums and gymnasiums since 2023, 5.69 million invested in public lighting and 4.09 in boiler houses, and on thermal insulation actually carried out — not one leu out of these procurements. The energy audit, the first step of the method, appears twice in the whole raion, 74,500 lei. The memorandum asks for no membership fee, and its text is public: of the four signatories in the raion, two published it — Costuleni and the Raion Council.

Ion Calmis·31 July 2026· AnalysisWHAT'S AT STAKE
Project rendering of a promenade on a lake shore: a paved walkway, a red bike lane, long concrete benches with wooden slats, trees and blocks of flats in the background, with a few passers-by, a cyclist and a young man on a scooter.
LOCAL

39% of the first stage of Ungheni's Lake Delia promenade comes from Cluj

The Cluj-Napoca Local Council voted on 20 July to give 593,000 Romanian lei (RON) for the development of the promenade on Lake Delia in Ungheni. The financing agreement, annexed to the decision of the Ungheni Municipal Council, shows that the first stage costs €288,387.80 — about 5.8 million Moldovan lei (MDL) — and that the Cluj share amounts to €113,247.88, that is 39.3% of the total. The remaining 60.7% is paid by Ungheni. The contract was awarded back in May to SRL Balt-Cons of Pîrlița, for 5,759,683.36 Moldovan lei including VAT, and the request to Cluj had gone out as early as December.

Ion Calmis·29 July 2026· Analysis
Diagram of the rebuilt stretch of district road L389 in Ungheni, between the Romană — Alexandru cel Bun junction and the Oleg Ungureanu — Decebal junction, with the contract's key figures: 36.7 million lei, 2.14 kilometres, 17 139 lei per metre, 12 months of works, and the funding shares of 75% district / 25% town hall.
LOCAL

36.7 million lei for 2.14 km: Ungheni's Alexandru cel Bun street goes into reconstruction

On 20 July the Consiliul raional Ungheni (the Ungheni District Council) awarded the contract for rebuilding the stretch between Romană street and the Oleg Ungureanu — Decebal junction, part of district road L389. The works cost 36 677 184 lei including VAT — 17 139 lei for every metre of street — and went to SA „Drumuri Bălți”, the only company that submitted a bid. The bill is not the district's alone, however: an agreement approved by the two councils splits the cost 75% district and 25% town hall, and the streets in question passed into district ownership only in 2023, handed over free of charge by the town.

Ion Calmis·28 July 2026· News
A freshly modernised village road, with new asphalt and markings, lined with houses and trees, under the summer sky.
LOCAL

Burebista Street in Sculeni enters construction: how a half-billion state programme reaches the village

The Sculeni commune hall announced on 23 July the start of works to modernise Burebista Street, through a government programme for repairing local roads, “Europe is Near”. The project, approved by the council in May 2025 after consultations with residents, was put out to a tender worth over 4 million lei, to which five firms applied — but the winner is not yet public, and the procedure went through a challenge upheld in full by the disputes authority. This is a different Burebista Street from the one refurbished in Ungheni.

Ion Calmis·24 July 2026· Explainer
A yellow grader levels a dirt-and-gravel street in a neighbourhood of houses in the town of Cornești; flowering shrubs and a fence line the edge.
LOCAL

Cornești lays 960 metres of gravel streets in the „white variant”: what it means and why it isn't asphalt

The Cornești Town Hall announced on 23 July that it had finished „white-variant” repairs on three streets — 2 Decembrie, Stejarului lane and Stejarului street — some 960 metres in all. The „white variant” means compacted gravel, not asphalt: a cheaper, faster solution, but a temporary one — so temporary that, in its own procurement, the town hall cut the works' warranty from 36 to 12 months. The money comes from state transfers for local roads, and the tender, estimated at about 749,000 lei, does not yet have a winner recorded in the public data.

Ion Calmis·24 July 2026· Explainer
The construction site of a building going up: reinforced-concrete foundations and wooden formwork, with apartment blocks in the background, at Ungheni's “Vasile Alecsandri” high school.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Ungheni's “Vasile Alecsandri” high school builds its first gym: 13.7 million lei for the first stage alone

The oldest high school in Ungheni district, whose roughly 620 students have had no indoor gym until now, finally has a construction site. The state procurement registry shows a 13.72-million-lei contract for the building's structure, won by COLASS SA. The walls go up this year, the interior follows in 2027 — and the total cost will be higher, because the second stage is not yet budgeted.

Ion Calmis·8 July 2026· News