-Old habits are stronger than the new Law on Public Procurements. Lowest price and electronic auctions remain unchallenged practices in the first three months after the law entered in effect.
-In the first half of 2019, competition in public procurements is worsened compared to the previous two years. The average number of bids in the monitoring sample stands at only 2.74 bids per tender procedure, while high 35% of monitored public procurements were presented with only one bid.
-In most cases, contracting authorities do not indicate the estimated value in their procurement notices, which is in compliance with novelties introduced in the law. However, there are number of cases in which offered prices are symptomatically close to the estimated value which bidding companies were unable to learn from tender documents.
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The Monitoring of Public Procurement is developed as part of the activity Public Spending for Public Good, supported under the USAID Civic Engagement Project. This activity aims to increase effective public spending by reducing corruption and increasing transparency.
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