Key findings from the survey are based on interviews with 210 companies related to their experience of participating in public procurement, conducted in the period February-March 2018.
- ‘Lowest price’ defined as single criterion to award public procurement contracts, delayed payment for contract performance and requirements related to voluminous documents for tender participation are the main problems in public procurements indicated by the companies.
- In average, surveyed companies wait 6 months and 21 days for payment of contracts performed. this average was 8 months under the survey conducted two years ago and 6 months under the survey conducted last year.
- 95% of surveyed companies believe that e-auctions result in attainment of unrealistically low prices and undermine quality of procurements on the account of their price.
- As many as 88% of surveyed companies believe corruption is present in public procurements, but indicated different assessments about its presence. the highest share, i.e. 47% of them believe corruption is present in public procurements, but rarely; 5% indicated corruption is always present; and 36% of companies reported that corruption is often present. only 12% of companies indicated there is no corruption in public procurements.
Findings from monitoring of public procurements:
- Public procurements reached a record low level in 2017. Value of public procurement contracts signed this year amounted to 624 million eur compared to 962 million eur contracted under public procurements implemented in 2016.
- Council of public procurements was terminated in late november 2017. There are no available data on effects from its operation in the last five months (july-november 2017). The special commission established at the ministry of finance did not disclose requested information.
- On annual level, annulled tender procedures accounted for 24% of all public procurements organized in 2017, which is the highest share recorded in the period 2013-2017.
You can read more about the report and the key findings from the survey in Macedonian and English.
The report was prepared as part of the “Monitoring Public Procurement” project, implemented by the Center for Civic Communications with financial support from Civica Mobilitas.
For more information, please contact the Center for Civil Communications at (02) 3213-513 or at center@ccc.org.mk.