Key remarks
The trend of annulling public procurement procedures is enhanced and reached concerning 25%. An average of 5 bidders has participated in the public procurement pro ce dures annulled by state institutions. This number of bidders is equal to the average number of registered bidders per announced tender in Macedonia, and therefore concerns on the motives of the contracting authorities in regard to annulment decisiontaking for the procedures remain.
Broad discretionary rights of contracting authorities in regard to setting the criteria for the selection of the most favorable bid still provide the possibility for subjective bidassessment and malpractices. Indicative is the fact that high 40% of monitored public procurement procedures have applied contestable elements as criteria for the selection of the most favorable bid, thus raising the question on the application of the principle on costeffective and efficient public spending.
Utilization rate of the eProcurement system accounts for 1% of the total number of public procurements three months prior to the enforcement of the legal obligation stipulating that at least 30% of annual public procurements should be organized as eProcurements. Such practices, inter alia, prevent the expected decrease of corruption and budget savings in the course of public procurements.
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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.