The ever so frequent use of electronic auction in tender procedures could mean that participants in public procurements are not abandoning already perfected mechanisms for malpractice and corruption. In practice, non-mandatory eauctions are still an inseparable part of tender procedures and were organized in 91% of all public procurements implemented in the first half of 2021.
Inequitable treatment of bidders leads to two extreme situations, whereby on the one end, bidding companies are exempted from tender procedures for matters that are not regulated under the law, and on the other end, erroneously drafted financial bids are accepted although they are inadmissible according to the law.
Submission of bids that are identical to the procurement’s estimated value, which had not been published, provides undeniable indication about previous arrangements. The monitoring sample includes significant number of tender procedures in which the estimated value was not published in advance, i.e. was not indicated in the procurement notice, but bidders have “ideally” pitched their offer within that amount.
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