Some of the key findings are:
Decreased interest on behalf of companies to participate in public procurements. Only one or two companies submitted bids in as high as 40% of procedures monitored. Thus, competition, which is one of the basic preconditions for efficient and cost-effective public spending, has been only seemingly secured.
Every fourth tender is annulled. Worrying is the fact that, in average, the number of companies participating in the procedures annulled is twice as high compared to the number of companies participating in the procedures where the selection of the most favourable bid was made.
Disputable elements are used in the selection of the most favourable bid. Despite all warnings and indications, in the selection of the most favourable bid the contracting authorities continue to use elements which often fail to secure cost-effective and efficient public spending, but rather provide the possibility to select the favoured bidder.
Certain bidders are favoured by means of tender document development. Some technical specifications from the monitoring sample provide open references to particular products or bidders by including detailed descriptions of products to be procured and by listing manufacturers’ names.
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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.