Key findings
» Monitoring activities observed frequent practices on non-dividing tender procedures of large scope into lots, which prevents competition among companies and consequently brings under question cost-effective and efficient use of public funds.
» Competition in public procurements in the second half of 2018 is marked by deteriora tion compared to the first half of the year. At annual level, as many as 32% of monitored tender procedures were presented with only one bid,which is indicative of declining competition in public procurements.
» Use of non-transparent negotiation procedure without prior announcement of call for bids has increased, In 2018, a total of 596 contracts were signed without previous an nouncement of call for bids, in cumulative value of 33 million euros, representing an in crease by 4 million euros compared to 2017. Dominant reason indicated for use of this non-transparent procedure concerns “urgent needs”.
» The number of annulled tender procedures continues to increase. In 2018, 27% of all public procurement procedures were fully or partially annulled, representing an increase by 3 percentile points compared to the previous year.
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This report was prepared by the Center for Civil Communications with the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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