Some of the key findings are:
Annulment of public procurement procedures continues to increase. In the second quarter of 2011, an unprecedented high number of tenders annulled was noted and represents the highest share of procedures annulled in the last 3 years, i.e., from the onset of monitoring activities. As high as 32.5% of monitoring-targeted tenders were annulled; all annulment decisions were taken by the contracting authorities.
Cases where eligibility criteria for companies are misused with a view to limit competition remain. Minimum eligibility requirements for biding companies are disproportional to the tender procedure’s value and complexity. By setting high eligibility criteria for companies’ participation in tender procedures, contracting authorities directly discriminate the tender participants.
Number of companies that participate on calls for bids was marked by a decrease and leads to reduced competition. Almost one third of procurement procedures subject to monitoring in the first half of 2011 obtained 0 to 2 bids from companies.
Selection criteria for the most favourable bid do not provide precise definition of the “quality” element and therefore result in subjective point-allocation. Thorough analysis of tender documents in public procurements that use the “quality“ element provides the conclusion that this element is not clearly divided into sub-elements, i.e., there are no precise definitions on criteria used to evaluate the quality of bids submitted.
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The present report on the monitoring of public procurement process was developed in cooperation and the financial support from the Foundation Open Society – Macedonia.