Key findings
- As many as 35% of monitored tender procedures have rejected a number of bids as unacceptable. This additionally hinders competition in tender procedures.
- In some tender procedures, e-auctions have resulted in attainment of such low prices that bring under question reality of tender procedures’ estimated value and quality of procurements.
- ‘Lowest price’ defined as the single criterion on contract awarding leads to tender procedures which have attained absurd prices of 0.01 MKD and o.01 percent. Such market inconsequence increases the risk of possible manipulations in the course of tender implementation.
- In the first half of 2017, the Council of Public Procurements was addressed with 7,583 applications from contracting authorities, i.e. by 9% less applications compared to the same period last year. In that, the Council invoiced contracting authorities for issuance of opinions/ approvals in total amount of 806,172 EUR.
- In the first half of 2017, the non-transparent negotiation procedure without prior announcement of call for bids was used to sign contracts in accumulative value of 7.4 million EUR, which is by 12% higher compared to the same period last year.
- Number and share of annulled tender procedures is increasing. In the first half of 2017, a total of 2,033 tender procedures were annulled (fully or in part), representing a share of 23.7% from the total number of procurement notices announced in the same period.
- In the first half of 2017, as high as 77.5% of tender procedures were implemented as electronic procedures using EPPS, although the law mandates at least 50%.
- Total of 19 negative references for 17 companies were issued in the first half of 2017.
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The report was prepared as part of the “Monitoring Public Procurement” project, implemented by the Center for Civic Communications with financial support from Civica Mobilitas.
For more information, please contact the Center for Civil Communications at (02) 3213-513 or at center@ccc.org.mk.