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PUBLIC SERVICES

Prut–Fălești water pipeline, with a supply line to Gherman (Sculeni): winning bid 6.2 million lei above the first

ADR Nord signed a new 63.4 million lei contract on 22 October for the Prut–Fălești water pipeline, with a supply line to the village of Gherman in Sculeni. The February contract was terminated after the contractor refused to carry out the works, according to the agency.

Ion Calmis·23 October 2026· News
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The Lake Delia promenade in Ungheni, with grey paving laid along the water and, next to it, strips of gravel not yet landscaped, edged with kerbs, under a cloudy sky
LOCAL

Lake Delia promenade: the site board gave completion as 24 September, the tender required 5 months from the notice to proceed

The 24 September 2026 deadline on the construction site board of the Lake Delia promenade has passed, and the works are continuing. The tender documents, however, require 5 months of execution from the notice to proceed (start order), and the contract is valid until 31 December 2026. Counted from the start date on the board, 24 June, the 5 months would end on 24 November. According to the model agreement approved in Ungheni, the money from Cluj-Napoca is paid after the works are accepted.

Ion Calmis·23 October 2026· News
A yellow roller passes over a fresh layer of black asphalt next to a concrete kerb.
LOCAL

Bond-funded streets: Servicii Comunale Ungheni wins all 4 lots, at 8.44 million lei excluding VAT

The tender for the streets repaired with Ungheni’s municipal bonds is over: SRL Servicii Comunale Ungheni won all 4 lots, with bids of 8.44 million lei excluding VAT, 1.17 million below the 9.61 million estimate. Including VAT, the contracts total 10.12 million lei. Mayoral orders set the start of works on 8 October, on Stamati, Bălțeni, Națională and Solidarității streets and in the Palace of Culture area.

Ion Calmis·21 October 2026· News
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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, with a total estimated value of 9.61 million lei excluding VAT, 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. After a challenge upheld in full by the disputes authority and a re-evaluation of the offers, the contract was awarded to Vicoliv Grup, which had submitted the lowest price. 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