Market research for the purpose of drafting technical specifications has failed in all cases. More specifically, in 100% of tender procedures contracting authorities had to obtain approval from the Council of Public Procurements prior to announcement of their procurement notices. As regards eligibility criteria for tender participation, market research has been successful in 71% of cases, while in 29% of cases contracting authorities had to obtain approval for these criteria. In that, higher competition was observed among tender procedures marked by successful market research and no need to obtain approval for their procurement notices.
Numerous examples from the monitoring sample showed great interdependence between procurement’s estimated value and final price attained, as well as with tender annulments. Therefore, prior to engaging in any serious effort to set estimated values of their procurements, contracting authorities are recommended to perform preliminary research of market prices and conditions.
In this monitoring period and sample, the share of tender annulments has decreased to below-average level, although there are examples of problematic tender annulments or non-annulment of tender procedures.
Competition in tender procedures organized on local level remained on the same low level of an average of 2.5 bidding companies per tender procedure, while the share of tender procedures with no bidding companies or with only one bidding company was decreased.
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