Some of the key findings are:
Economic operators cannot exercise the right to insight in documents related to public procurement procedures they have participated in. Preventing insight in documents related to the implemented public procurements only increases the impression on behalf of companies that the procedure in question failed to secure fair competition and validates their doubts on procedure irregularities.
The trend on decreased competition in public procurements continues. In as high as 47.5% of tenders monitored in the period July-September 2010, bids were submitted by only 1 or 2 companies. This indicates that public procurements are characterized by problems that prevent efficient competition between the suppliers.
22.5% of monitored procedures were annulled. In the period 2008 to 2010, the share of annulled tenders from the total number of implemented procurement procedures has been increased by 2 and half times. In some procedures, the annulment decision was adopted two to five months from the day of the public opening of bids, which provides space for doubts on particular calculations or possible influences in the decision-taking process.
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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.